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Proof mark
Answer for the clue "Proof mark ", 5 letters:
caret
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Word definitions for caret in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The caret is an inverted V-shaped grapheme . It is the spacing character ^ in ASCII (at code point 5E) and other character sets that may also be called a hat , control , uparrow , or less frequently chevron , xor sign , to the power of , pointer (in Pascal ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"mark in writing to show where something is to be inserted," 1680s, from Latin caret "there is lacking," 3rd person singular indicative of carere "to lack" (see caste ).
Usage examples of caret.
Caret profecto omnibus his, qui vitam suam vult semper habere cum famulis.
She gazed down into it, watching until CIC updated it with the red caret that indicated an unidentified hyper footprint on Gauntlet's starboard bow at just over sixteen light-minutes.
Et cum coelestibus undis Aequoreae miscentur aquae: caret ignibus aether, Caecaque nox premitur tenebris hiemisque suisque.
Beside a bronze head, such as the monk Roger Bacon possessed, which answered all the questions that were addressed to it and foretold the future by means of a magic mirror and the combination of the rules of perspective, lay an eggshell, the same which had been used by Caret, as d'Aubigne tells us, when making men out of germs, mandrakes, and crimson silk, over a slow fire.
One of the little girls whimpered in fright but was instantly comforted by Sarah McDouall, one of the carets on duty at the crlche.
If they were as full of vehicles as the carets implied, there was a score of large aircars in each.
The carets Milligan didn't have time for indicated there were people in the office, half a dozen of them, ducking behind desks and consoles.
Iblis held it with nervous caret as if he had been given a ticking bomb.
Huber adjusted his sight picture onto the leftmost caret, enlarging the central portion around the pipper while the surrounding field remained one-to-one so that he wouldn't be blindsided by an unglimpsed danger.