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dash-dotted

dash-dotted adjective: made up of a series of alternating dashes and dots.

Adjective

dash-dotted (comparative more dash-dotted, superlative most dash-dotted)

  1. Made up of a series of alternating dashes and dots.
    • For equal weights on the output gap and inflation (μ=1, depicted via dash-dotted lines), the policy rate decreases slightly, but the output gap rises and the inflation rate falls.2023, Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, and Ji Zhang, The Four-Equation New Keynesian Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics 105(4), pp. 931--947

Forms of dash-dotted

comparativemore dash-dotted
superlativemost dash-dotted

Origin of dash-dotted

From dash + dot + -ed.

Questions about dash-dotted

What does dash-dotted mean?
Dash-dotted means made up of a series of alternating dashes and dots.
What part of speech is dash-dotted?
Dash-dotted is an adjective.

Words near dash-dotted in the dictionary

  1. dash on
  2. dash someone's hopes
  3. dash'd
  4. dash-cam
  5. dash-cams
  6. dash-dotted
  7. dash-wheel
  8. dash-wheels
  9. dasha
  10. Dashain
  11. Dashami

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