emdash

emdash
em·dash or em dash (ĕmʹdăsh') n.
A symbol (—) used in writing and printing to indicate a break in thought or sentence structure, to introduce a phrase added for emphasis, definition, or explanation, or to separate two clauses.
  [From its being the width of an m in printing.]

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