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A symbol that serves to mark the beginning or end of some programming construct, e.g. the semicolon that separates statements in Algol-like languages, the period that marks the end of a sentence in Cobol, the END IF that marks the end of an IF statement in Visual Basic.
From: delimiter in A Dictionary of Computing »
Subjects: Computing.
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