Various notations, like the vinculum have a similar effect to brackets in specifying order of operations, or otherwise grouping several characters together for a common purpose.
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Historically, other notations, such as the vinculum, were similarly used for grouping; in present-day use, these notations all have specific meanings.
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The symbol used to indicate a vinculum need not be a line segment ( overline or underline ), sometimes braces, pointing up or down can be used.
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An obligation is a legal bond ( " vinculum iuris " ) by which one or more parties ( obligants ) are bound to act or refrain from acting.
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Another example of a vinculum still in use is the horizontal line used with a square root sign .-- Zero 09 : 13, 12 Dec 2003 ( UTC)
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To that effect, a " vinculum " ( overbar ) above a letter or a letter-set also was so used, becoming a universal medieval typographic usage.
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The aliens protest the destruction of the vinculum and initiate a battle with " Voyager ", but B'Elanna is successful and Seven is freed from the link.
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The male genital's valvae usually have complex autapomorphic modifications ( such as a hypertrophied ampulla and gnathos ) in this tribe, but the vinculum is generally neither extended nor recurved.
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For unless revolution uproots the basic social organisation, the biological family the vinculum through which the psychology of power can always be smuggled the tapeworm of exploitation will never be annihilated.
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:* An overline, sometimes also called an overbar, or less accurately, a vinculum or a macron, may be placed over the last significant figure; any trailing zeros following this are insignificant.
