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"name": "com"
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"etymology_text": "bell + character",
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"A control character with the value seven (Unicode code point U+0007, ASCII 0x07), originally used to ring a bell on telegraphy equipment to alert the operator to an incoming message; on modern computers, generally causes a beep or buzzer to sound when printed to a terminal window, or may cause the terminal window to flash briefly."
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"message",
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"beep",
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"buzzer",
"buzzer"
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"terminal",
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"(computing) A control character with the value seven (Unicode code point U+0007, ASCII 0x07), originally used to ring a bell on telegraphy equipment to alert the operator to an incoming message; on modern computers, generally causes a beep or buzzer to sound when printed to a terminal window, or may cause the terminal window to flash briefly."
],
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"word": "␇"
},
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"english": "label",
"word": "BEL"
}
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"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
}
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"A control character with the value seven (Unicode code point U+0007, ASCII 0x07), originally used to ring a bell on telegraphy equipment to alert the operator to an incoming message; on modern computers, generally causes a beep or buzzer to sound when printed to a terminal window, or may cause the terminal window to flash briefly."
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[
"operator",
"operator"
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[
"message",
"message"
],
[
"computer",
"computer"
],
[
"beep",
"beep"
],
[
"buzzer",
"buzzer"
],
[
"terminal",
"terminal"
],
[
"flash",
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],
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"(computing) A control character with the value seven (Unicode code point U+0007, ASCII 0x07), originally used to ring a bell on telegraphy equipment to alert the operator to an incoming message; on modern computers, generally causes a beep or buzzer to sound when printed to a terminal window, or may cause the terminal window to flash briefly."
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"word": "BEL"
}
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}
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