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"word": "interrobang"
},
{
"word": "bracket"
},
{
"word": "parentheses (US"
},
{
"alt": "( )",
"word": "Canada)"
},
{
"word": "full stop"
},
{
"alt": ".",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US"
],
"word": "period"
},
{
"alt": "?",
"word": "question mark"
},
{
"alt": "‘ ’ ‚; „",
"tags": [
"formal"
],
"word": "quotation marks"
},
{
"alt": "\"; '",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"natural-sciences"
],
"word": "quotation marks"
},
{
"alt": ";",
"word": "semicolon"
},
{
"word": "slash"
},
{
"alt": "/",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "stroke"
},
{
"alt": "] [",
"word": "space"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"mul:Mathematics"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "(a,b]=x∈ R ,|,a<x<b"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Denotes an open endpoint of an interval."
],
"links": [
[
"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
"interval",
"w:Interval (mathematics)"
]
],
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"(mathematics) Denotes an open endpoint of an interval."
],
"topics": [
"mathematics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
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{
"word": "]"
}
],
"word": "("
}
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