Vinculum
A horizontal line placed above multiple quantities to indicate that they form a unit. It is most commonly used to denote
1. A radical (
),
2. Repeating decimals (
),
3. The line segment 
joining two points 
and 
,
4. The complex conjugate 
, or
5 Negation of a logical expression, 
.
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