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em dash definition

em dash (em)

Printing a dash the width of a capital M in a given type font, used to indicate breaks in thought, parenthetical remarks, dialog, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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