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ampersat
ampersat
English
Noun
ampersat (plural ampersats)
- The at sign (@).
- 1996, David Bown, "bits & bytes", The Independent, Monday 05 February 1996
- Tim Nott asked what the @, the hub of the e-mail address, should be called{...}. Tim Gowens offered the highly logical 'ampersat'".
- 2000, Wankyu Choi, Allan Kent, Chris Lea, Beginning PHP4, page 249
- […] there are users out there on the Internet right now who think that they possess an e-mail address containing neither an at-sign (@ often known as an "ampersat") nor a domain name.
- 1996, David Bown, "bits & bytes", The Independent, Monday 05 February 1996
Synonyms
- (at sign): at sign, at-sign, atmark, at symbol, commercial at
Translations
at sign — see at sign