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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	COMMERCIAL AT
Codepoint	U+0040
? ← Basic Latin → A

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Symbol 1.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2 Translations 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Symbol 2.2.1 See also 3 Hebrew 3.1 Symbol 4 Hungarian 4.1 Symbol 5 Japanese 5.1 Symbol 5.1.1 Usage notes 6 Polish 6.1 Symbol 7 Portuguese 7.1 Symbol 8 Russian 8.1 Symbol 9 Spanish 9.1 Symbol

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Wikipedia

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A cursive variation of ᾱ or ᾱᾱ, the abbreviation of Greek ανα (ana) used in recipes and prescriptions with the meaning "of each", and later extended to accounting. (Other explanations have that it is ā, an abbreviation of Latin ad (“‘to’”), or French à (“‘to’”).)

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1. At the rate of, per each: 7 @ $2 = $14 (that is, seven, at two dollars each, are fourteen dollars).
2. In English, extended from "at the rate of" to simply "at": @ 20°C (at twenty degrees Celsius), @ 80 km/h (at eighty kilometres per hour), etc.
3. (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address ("at" the domain name).
4. (computing, IRC) The most common choice of configurable prefix symbol to identify a channel operator.
5. (Internet) Sometimes prepended to the name of the user to whom a remark is addressed.

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• at-sign

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• Homophones: at

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1. at a rate of (so much each)

   15 items @ $10

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• at sign

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1. The symbol is called "שטרודל" - Strudel because of its shape. Additional reference for this word in Wikipedia: [1]

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1. The symbol is called kukac - worm because of its shape.

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1. at a rate of

   500@¥5

   500 items at a rate of 5 yen

2. (slang) remaining (stands for あと (ato), mostly used in MMORPG)

   @5個

   @5こ

   @5 ko

   5 items remaining

   @1時間で寝る

   @1じかんでねる

   @1 jikan de neru

   I'll go to bed in a hour

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The symbol is called 単価記号 (たんかきごう, tanka kigō, "unit-price sign"), and informally アットマーク (attomāku) or アット (atto).

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1. The symbol is called małpa (mahwpa), “‘monkey’”)

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1. The symbol for the arroba unit of weight.

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1. The symbol is called собака (sobáka), “‘dog’”) f. or коммерческое "at" (kommérčeskoje "et"), “‘commercial "at"’”) n.
   • other names: эт (et), “‘at’”) n., лягушка (ljagúška), “‘frog’”) f., обезьянка (obez'jánka), “‘little monkey’”) f.

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1. The symbol for the arroba unit of weight and volume.
2. The symbol for o and a to include both masculine and feminine forms.

   l@s alumn@s = los alumnos y las alumnas (the male and female students)