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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.
noun
A mark ⟨⸒⟩ in late Classical and Byzantine Greek used as a form of interpunct to show two words should be read separately in situations where they might otherwise be confused with an identically spelled single word.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
History
From Latin hypodiastolē, from Ancient Greek ὑποδιαστολή (hupodiastolḗ), from ὑπό (hupó, “under, lower”) + διαστολή (diastolḗ, “separation, distinction”), from διαστέλλω (diastéllō, “separate”), from διά (diá, “through, during”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “order, arrange”).
Across languages
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