"broken arrow" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "broken arrows",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "broken arrow (plural broken arrows)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
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          "_dis": "96 4",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Thomas W. Hungerford, Algebra, page 371",
          "text": "A broken arrow A - - -> B indicates that an occasional result of Section A is used in Section B, but that Section B is essentially independent of Section A.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Diana Gaitini, Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, An Issue of Ultrasound Clinics",
          "text": "Longitudinal scan of focal thickening and disruption of the median nerve (broken arrow), at the level volar to the distal radius, in keeping with scarring from prior trauma. (F) Sagittal proton density MR image of nonspecific thickening of the 2. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 3. 4. median nerve (broken arrow), with a similar configuration.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Richard W. Nelson, C. Guillermo Couto, Small Animal Internal Medicine, page 761",
          "text": "Note that the uptake of pertechnetate (i.e., darkness) is comparable between the two thyroid lobes (solid arrow) and the salivary glands (broken arrow).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A callout marker that consists of a dashed line with an arrowhead."
      ],
      "id": "en-broken_arrow-en-noun-bD7Rs8tA",
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          "callout"
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        [
          "dashed",
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        ],
        [
          "line",
          "line"
        ],
        [
          "arrowhead",
          "arrowhead"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(technical writing) A callout marker that consists of a dashed line with an arrowhead."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "communications",
        "engineering",
        "journalism",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "publishing",
        "technical",
        "writing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken, arrow."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "broken",
          "broken#English"
        ],
        [
          "arrow",
          "arrow#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "broken arrow"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "broken arrows",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "broken arrow (plural broken arrows)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Thomas W. Hungerford, Algebra, page 371",
          "text": "A broken arrow A - - -> B indicates that an occasional result of Section A is used in Section B, but that Section B is essentially independent of Section A.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Diana Gaitini, Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, An Issue of Ultrasound Clinics",
          "text": "Longitudinal scan of focal thickening and disruption of the median nerve (broken arrow), at the level volar to the distal radius, in keeping with scarring from prior trauma. (F) Sagittal proton density MR image of nonspecific thickening of the 2. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 3. 4. median nerve (broken arrow), with a similar configuration.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Richard W. Nelson, C. Guillermo Couto, Small Animal Internal Medicine, page 761",
          "text": "Note that the uptake of pertechnetate (i.e., darkness) is comparable between the two thyroid lobes (solid arrow) and the salivary glands (broken arrow).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A callout marker that consists of a dashed line with an arrowhead."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "callout",
          "callout"
        ],
        [
          "dashed",
          "dashed"
        ],
        [
          "line",
          "line"
        ],
        [
          "arrowhead",
          "arrowhead"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(technical writing) A callout marker that consists of a dashed line with an arrowhead."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "communications",
        "engineering",
        "journalism",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "publishing",
        "technical",
        "writing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken, arrow."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "broken",
          "broken#English"
        ],
        [
          "arrow",
          "arrow#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "broken arrow"
}