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Translingual
Symbol
↓
- Down, below.
- Southward.
- Indicating a decrease or reduction.
- Antonym: ↑
- 2019, Antonis Fanouriakis, George Bertsias, “Changing paradigms in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus”, in Lupus Science & Medicine, volume 6 (in English), , page 3:
- Tapering scheme ↓ 5 mg q week […]
[Figure 2 A proposed algorithm for the handling of glucocorticoid (GC) therapy in patients with active or flaring SLE.]
- (phonetics)
- (a) Ingressive airstream mechanism when used with a letter for a (pulmonic) egressive sound, e.g. [s↓], [a↓] or (rarely) implosives such as [pʼ↓] for [ɓ̥].
- (b) Inhalation when used alone: [↓].
- Antonym: ↑
- (chemistry) precipitate, precipitation
- (go) an evaluation of a game position, down, defined as −↑ = {*|0}.[1][2]
- Antonym: ↑
- (computing) The down-arrow key on a computer keyboard, used for navigation and various keyboard commands.
Usage notes
(go): The evaluations ⟨↓ ⇓ ⤋ ⟱⟩ are equivalent to ⟨↑ ⇑ ⤊ ⟰⟩ with the positions of black and white reversed.[1]
References
- Elwyn Berlekamp & David Wolfe (1994) Mathematical Go: Chilling Gets the Last Point, A. K. Peters Ltd, p. 18ff
- Dierk Schleicher & Michael Stoll (2005) An Introduction to Conway’s Games and Numbers, arXiv:math/0410026v2 (PDF), pp. 3, 7, 8, 25
English
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