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Vertical bar

The vertical bar, |, is a glyph with various uses in mathematics, computing, and typography. It has many names, often related to particular meanings: Sheffer stroke (in logic), pipe, bar, or (literally, the word "or"), vbar, and others.

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U+00A6 ¦ BROKEN BAR (¦) U+2016 ‖ DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE (‖, ‖) U+2223 ∣ DIVIDES

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Broken bar

Unicode

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Vertical bar

Nodes149
Edges148
Triples85
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013423
Components1

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Vertical bar

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related to Broken bar · 22
Vertical bar → American Standard Code, American Standards Association, An, As, ASCII, Coded Character Sets, Data Format, IBM, IBM's PL/I, Information Interchange, International Standards Organisation, June, Many, May, Nelson, NOT, OR, SHARE, The, The Proposed
related to Unicode · 21
Vertical bar → BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL, BROKEN BAR, DEVANAGARI DANDAU, DEVANAGARI DOUBLE DANDA, DIVIDES, DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE, DoubleVerticalBar, FF5C, FFE4, Fullwidth, FULLWIDTH BROKEN BARU, FULLWIDTH VERTICAL LINE, LETTER DENTAL CLICKU, LETTER LATERAL CLICKU, LIGHT VERTICAL BARU, PARALLEL TO, Verbar, Vert, VERTICAL LINE, VerticalBar
related to Phonetics and orthography · 12
Vertical bar → Cyrillic, In, International Phonetic Alphabet, Khoisan, Latin Extended-B, LETTER DENTAL CLICK, LETTER LATERAL CLICK, Northeast Caucasian, Russian, Since, Some Northwest, Unicode
related to Literature · 9
Vertical bar → DEVANAGARI DANDA, DEVANAGARI DOUBLE DANDA, European, In, In Sanskrit, Indian, The, Two, Unicode
related to Mathematics · 4
Vertical bar → If, The, These, When
related to Physics · 4
Vertical bar → Examples, Grassmann, Supergroups, The
In Unicode · 1
Vertical bar → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}U+007C | VERTICAL LINE (|, |, |)
See also · 1
Vertical bar → U+00A6 ¦ BROKEN BAR (¦) U+2016 ‖ DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE (‖, ‖) U+2223 ∣ DIVIDES

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vertical bar used double broken displaystyle character languages mark line also set logical pipe unicode bars single code standard notation

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Vertical barIn Unicode.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}U+007C | VERTICAL LINE (|, |, |)1.00infobox
Vertical barSee alsoU+00A6 ¦ BROKEN BAR (¦) U+2016 ‖ DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE (‖, ‖) U+2223 ∣ DIVIDES1.00infobox
Rubyinstance oftextbarcommand can be used to produce a vertical bar.ClosuresThe vertical bar is used to denote closures certain languages0.80text
Rust.Phoneticsinstance oftextbarcommand can be used to produce a vertical bar.ClosuresThe vertical bar is used to denote closures certain languages0.80text
orthographyIn the Khoisan languagesinstance oftextbarcommand can be used to produce a vertical bar.ClosuresThe vertical bar is used to denote closures certain languages0.80text
the International Phonetic Alphabetinstance oftextbarcommand can be used to produce a vertical bar.ClosuresThe vertical bar is used to denote closures certain languages0.80text
the vertical bar is used to write the dental clickinstance oftextbarcommand can be used to produce a vertical bar.ClosuresThe vertical bar is used to denote closures certain languages0.80text
Rustinstance oftextbarcommand can be used to produce a vertical bar.ClosuresThe vertical bar is used to denote closures certain languages0.80text
Rubyinstance ofClosuresThe vertical bar is used to denote closures certain languages0.80text
Rustinstance ofClosuresThe vertical bar is used to denote closures certain languages0.80text
IBM's PL/I universally on all platformsinstance ofhe argues that no characters within the international subset designated at columns 2-5 of the character set would be able to adequately represent logical OR and logical NOT in l…0.80text
programminginstance ofrespectively in use cases0.80text

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