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noun
A fictitious vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format, including books resulting from random concatenation of letters, spaces and punctuation marks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
After Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote about such a library in his short story The Library of Babel (1941).
