@

See also Appendix:Variations of "a", and Appendix:Variations of "at"

Translingual

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

Wikipedia

Etymology

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”).)

Symbol

@

1. At the rate of; per.

   7 @ $2 = $14 (that is, seven, at two dollars each, are fourteen dollars).

2. (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address ("at" the domain name).
3. (computing, IRC) The most common choice of configurable prefix symbol to identify a channel operator.
4. (Internet) Prepended to the name of the user to whom a remark is addressed.

   Bob: How can I stop other people from accessing my files when they use my computer?
   Jack: @Bob: You need to protect the files with a password.

Derived terms

• ﹫ (small form variant)

See also

• English: at-sign

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English

Pronunciation

• Homophone: at

Preposition

@

1. at a rate of (so much each)

   15 items @ $10

   @ 80 km/h (at eighty kilometres per hour)

2. (informal, neologism) at (any sense)

   @ 20°C (at twenty degrees Celsius)

   Text message: "im @ school."

3. (text messaging) Replacing the sounding /æt/ on any word that has this pronunciation or similar.

   e.g. d@ (that), c@ (cat), @end (attend), b@ (bat), f@ (fat), h@ (hat)

See also

• at sign

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Hebrew

Symbol

@

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Usage notes

The symbol is called שטרודל.

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Hungarian

Symbol

@

1. (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.

Usage notes

The symbol is called kukac (“worm”) in Hungarian because of its shape.

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Japanese

Symbol

@

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

Usage notes

The symbol is called 単価記号, たんかきごう (tanka kigō), アットマーク (attomāku), or アット (atto).

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Malagasy

Abbreviation

@

1. (informal) Abbreviation of amin'ny.

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Portuguese

Symbol

@

1. The symbol for the arroba unit of weight.

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Russian

Symbol

@

1. @

Usage notes

This symbol is called эт (et), лягушка (ljagúška), обезьянка (obez'jánka), собака (sobáka), or коммерческое "at" (kommérčeskoje "et").

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Spanish

Symbol

@

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)

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Turkish

@

Symbol

@

1. her biri (“each”)