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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A sequence of text characters in source code that do not form a keyword nor part of a quoted string, and may potentially be interpreted in various ways.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: chiefly Perl
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From bare + word.
