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greater than

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(character)greater than - ">" ASCII character 62.

Common names: ITU-T: greater than; ket ("<" = bra); right angle; right angle bracket; right broket. Rare: into, toward; write to; blow ("<" = suck); gozinta; out; zap (all from Unix I/O redirection); INTERCAL: right angle.

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It is greater than the stars--that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
They passed without seeing us, brushing us with their brownish fins, and we escaped by a miracle from a danger certainly greater than meeting a tiger full-face in the forest.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
While I acknowledge the success of the present work to have been greater than I anticipated, and the praises it has elicited from a few kind critics to have been greater than it deserved, I must also admit that from some other quarters it has been censured with an asperity which I was as little prepared to expect, and which my judgment, as well as my feelings, assures me is more bitter than just.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
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