deli-miter

de·lim·it·er

[dih-lim-i-ter]
noun Computers.
a blank space, comma, or other character or symbol that indicates the beginning or end of a character string, word, or data item.

Origin:
1960–65; delimit + -er1

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delimiter
1960, in computing, from delimit.
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Deli-miter is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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