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Old 05-21-2021, 05:50 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
Strange, I never ran across that specific character.

From a quick search, and looking at the surrounding Unicode characters, I believe it's used in technical drawings (like schematics):
It's a term that relates to curved surfaces mainly in precision engineering and optics.

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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
Who knows how Text-to-Speech would deal with it. Imagine hearing an entire book full of "straightness" instead of a brief pause.
It might even be autocorrected to 'Caithness" which would get on your Wick

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