Vertical bar

The vertical bar ( | ) is a computer character and glyph with various uses in mathematics, computing, and typography. It has many names, often related to particular meanings: Sheffer stroke (in logic), verti-bar, vbar, stick, vertical line, vertical slash, bar, obelisk, glidus,atau atau, or pipe. On a QWERTY keyboard, the combination of the "shift" key Shift and the backslash "\" key outputs the character "|". Other keyboard layouts may use different combinations to output the vertical bar.

Usage

Mathematics

The vertical bar is used as a mathematical symbol in

  • absolute value: |x|, read "the absolute value of x".
  • norms: \|(x_1,x_2)\|, read "the norm of x one, x two"; though Unicode also provides a special double vertical line symbol U+2016: x
  • Parallelism in geometry, where AB \parallel CD indicates that the line AB is parallel to the line CD.
  • set-builder notation: \{x|x<2\}, read "the set of x such that x is less than two". Often a colon ':' is used instead of a vertical bar.
  • cardinality: |S|, read "the cardinality of the set S".
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    The Daily Telegraph 26 Mar 2025
    A medical student was killed when the bar of a gym weight machine struck his head, an inquest heard ... Det Sgt Robert Waring said that a Smith machine was a “horizontal bar bell which runs vertically up and down on rails”.

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    AOL 26 Mar 2025
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    New York Post 18 Mar 2025
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