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{
"form": "delete characters",
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]
}
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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"Entry maintenance"
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},
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"langcode": "en",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "en:Computing",
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"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
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}
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"glosses": [
"the last character in the ASCII repertoire, coded as 127, designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape"
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"word": "bell character"
},
{
"word": "carriage return"
},
{
"word": "line feed"
},
{
"word": "null character"
},
{
"word": "tab"
}
],
"id": "en-delete_character-en-noun-1-hlgh6c",
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],
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"character",
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],
[
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],
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"paper tape"
]
],
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"(computing) the last character in the ASCII repertoire, coded as 127, designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape"
],
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"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
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]
}
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"word": "delete character"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "delete characters",
"tags": [
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]
}
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"args": {},
"expansion": "delete character (plural delete characters)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"word": "bell character"
},
{
"word": "carriage return"
},
{
"word": "line feed"
},
{
"word": "null character"
},
{
"word": "tab"
}
],
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"pos": "noun",
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"English multiword terms",
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],
"glosses": [
"the last character in the ASCII repertoire, coded as 127, designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape"
],
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"computing",
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"character",
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"ASCII",
"ASCII"
],
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"repertoire"
],
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"paper tape",
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]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(computing) the last character in the ASCII repertoire, coded as 127, designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape"
],
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"computing",
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"mathematics",
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"physical-sciences",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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