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The middle-length dash used for ranges: 1914–18.
Also known as: Nut, Range dash, Dash between two numbers
Half the width of an em dash. Its main job is to join rather than interrupt — a span of numbers, a route between two places, a relationship between two names — and using a hyphen instead is the single commonest typographic slip in published text.
A horizontal stroke one en wide, half an em, used to join: a range of numbers or dates, a route between two endpoints, or a relation between two names.
In a range it means 'to', so writing 'from 1914–18' is redundant and both style authorities call for either 'from 1914 to 1918' or '1914–18'.
British practice additionally uses it spaced as the parenthetical dash, in the role American practice gives to the closed-up em dash.
United Kingdom
A horizontal stroke on the mid-line, noticeably longer than a hyphen and about half the width of the longest dash.