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en dash

–noun Printing.
a dash one en long.
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en·dash or en dash   (ěn'dāsh')   
n.  A symbol ( - ) used in writing or printing to connect continuing or inclusive numbers or to connect elements of a compound adjective when either of the elements is an open compound, as 1880-1945 or Princeton-New York trains.

[From its being the width of an n in printing.]
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