ditto mark

This last was followed by several ditto marks, and there were underlinings.

Double quotation marks are also often used to represent the ditto mark.

"I have gotten a notice of violation for using ditto marks in a monthly discharge report," he said.

Do not use abbreviations or ditto marks.

A ditto, or ditto mark, is a typographic character.

In a tabulated table or list, vertical repetition can be represented by a ditto mark (〃).

See also: ditto mark.

The double quotation mark is similar to, and often used to represent, the ditto mark and the double prime symbol.

Only now do I realize that what it meant was ditto and that it was used instead of the ditto marks we use today.

In several books, all the columns were checked with ditto marks - or simply a line, top to bottom, showing that everyone was found to be in compliance.

Looking at the ditto marks, Hassam Mneimneh, director of the documents project, said, "it looks like they didn't really care."

These records are a page of ditto marks eight years running, referring to the lines previous as "LV" for "lot vacant," certainly ambiguous by any standards.

Residence: [Ditto marks] Father: Friedrich Braun.

The iteration mark (々) is used to indicate that the preceding kanji is to be repeated, functioning similarly to a ditto mark in English.

In English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Czech and Polish lists, the ditto mark (〃) represents a word repeated from the equivalent position in the line above it.

He also commented that while all of the chalkboard gags on the show are "funny", this episode "features a true gem" as Bart writes "I will not cut corners" once and then puts ditto marks below.

The prime symbol should not be confused with the apostrophe, single quotation mark, acute accent or grave accent; the double prime should not be confused with the double quotation mark, the ditto mark, or the letter double apostrophe.

Early evidence of ditto marks can be seen on a cuneiform tablet of the Neo-Assyrian period (934 - 608 BC) where two vertical marks are used in a table of synonyms to repeat text, while in China the corresponding mark is two horizontal lines (二); see iteration mark.