Unsupported titles/`vert` `vert`

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See also: ǁ [U+01C1 LATIN LETTER LATERAL CLICK], [U+2016 DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE], ‖ ‖, [U+2225 PARALLEL TO], and [U+23F8 DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR]

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VERTICAL LINE
{
[U+007B]
Basic Latin }
[U+007D]

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  1. (mathematics) Marks absolute value.
    |-3| = 3
    The absolute value of minus three is three.
    For x = (1,1), and y = (4,5), |x – y| = √([1–4]2 + [1–5]2) = 5
    For x equals one, one and y equals four, five, the absolute value of the quantity x minus y is the square root of (open parentheses) the quantity one minus four squared plus the quantity one minus five squared (close parentheses) or five.
  2. (mathematics) Marks determinants.
    |A|
    The determinant of the matrix A
  3. (mathematics) Marks the operation of finding the cardinality of a set.
    Synonyms: #, card
    The set three, five, seven, and nine has a cardinality of four.
  4. (mathematics) Notes the number of connected components.

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  1. (linguistics) Encloses morphophonemic transcription.
    Synonyms: ⫽ ⫽, ‖ ‖, { }
  2. (linguistics) Encloses diaphonemic transcription.
    Synonyms: \ \, ⫽ ⫽, ! !
    Coordinate terms: / /, [ ], ⟨ ⟩, ⸢ ⸣