No. 4,143 in Dutch
aspas
Quotation marks.
In a sentence
De aspas van de windmolen draaien snel door de harde wind.
The blades of the windmill spin rapidly due to the strong wind.
The word 'aspas' is used here to mean 'blades' or 'vanes', referring to the rotating elements of the windmill that catch the wind.
Hij plaatste de tekst tussen aspas om aan te geven dat het een citaat was.
He enclosed the text in quotation marks to indicate that it was a quote.
In this example, 'aspas' refers to 'quotation marks', used in writing to denote speech or quotes.
In de wiskunde worden aspas gebruikt om de absolute waarde aan te duiden.
In mathematics, aspas are used to denote the absolute value.
Here, 'aspas' symbolizes the bars or notation used in mathematics to represent the absolute value of a number.
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