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A cell suspending contractions for what follows.
Also known as: Grade 1 indicator, Uncontracted indicator
In Unified English Braille the grade one indicator suspends contraction, so the following cell is read letter by letter rather than as a shortened form.
Suspends contraction so that what follows is read as individual letters.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Is essential for technical text, web addresses and passwords, where a contraction would silently change what the reader receives.
Contexts: Language and transcription
A cell with dots five and six raised, or doubled and tripled for a word and a passage as the capital indicators are.