What does absolute value sign mean when it's around the covariance matrix?

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I have the following covariance formula and the probability formula:

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I am trying to write these formulas in python, however, I couldn't understand that |$\sum|^\frac{1}{2}$

What does that operation mean? I thought that I should get the absolute value of every element in the matrix and take the square root of them. Is this correct?