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单词 section-mark
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section-mark
section-mark n. (see sense 6).
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section-mark
6. Printing. The sign §, originally used to introduce the number of a ‘section’ (sense 2b); subsequently used also as a mark of reference to notes in the margin or at the foot of a page. Also called section-mark.The primary use of the sign seems to have become rare in the 18th cent., and to have been revived in the latter part of the 19th cent. under German influence. German printers give to this mark the name of paragraph.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Character Characters in Grammar, Rhetoric, Poetry &c...§ Section, or Division.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 259 The Sign which implies the word Section, is a Sort..seldom employed, because in Work which is divided into Chapters, Articles, Paragraphs, Sections, or any other Parts, they are commonly put in lines by themselves, either in Large Capitals, Small Capitals, or Italic... But the Sign of Section is sometimes used in (Latin) Notes, and particularly such as are collected from foreign books.
1875 J. Southward Dict. Typogr. (ed. 2) 123 Section (§), a mark of reference. It stands fourth in order, and immediately after the double dagger. Sometimes it is used to mark the division of a chapter into parts or sections, whence its name.
1894 Amer. Dict. Printing Section-mark.
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