streck

Streck is a term that appears in several Germanic languages with different meanings depending on the context. In Swedish, streck is a common noun that roughly translates to dash, stroke, or line. It can refer to elongated marks drawn with a pen, a punctuation mark similar to a dash, or any linear element in drawings and diagrams.

In Swedish typography and handwriting, streck is used to describe marks that separate elements or denote a pause, and it appears in compound terms such as streckkod, meaning barcode, where streck denotes the bars that encode information.

Streck also functions as a surname in German-speaking regions and among communities with Germanic heritage. As a proper noun, it may occur in personal names and, less commonly, in place names or historical references.

Because Streck is a word with multiple language-specific meanings, its use is typically clear from context. In everyday writing, it usually refers to a dash or line in Swedish; as a surname, it identifies individuals in Germanic contexts.