double quotes
Americanplural noun
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A “string” is a set of letters the computer can process, surrounded by double quotes.
From Slate • Mar. 15, 2012
Only"Page 295: Changed double quotes to single quotes: passing the 'carriers' throughPage 295: Added closing quote: ... under the postal administration."
From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by Fyfe, J. Hamilton
The numeral 1, the lower-case letter l, the exclamation mark ! and the capital I are routinely confused, and often, single or double quotes may be mistaken for one of these.
From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim
Quotation marks in The Victim of Magical Delusion are shown as printed except when there is a mismatch between single and double quotes.
From The New-York Weekly Magazine or Miscellaneous Repository by Various
Page 7: Double quotes inside double quotes in Hallam quotation replaced with single quotes.
From Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare by Chertkov, V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich)
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