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] [ (U+0020)
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] [ (U+3000)
- fullwidth (Ideographic) space;
[edit] #
Wikipedia[edit] Translingual
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#
- (computing) The hash character
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- In English it is called the pound sign, number sign, hash sign, or octothorpe.
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The symbol # derives from the abbreviation lb for Latin[[Category:Latin derivations|]] libra (“‘pound’”), via the medieval convention of indicating abbreviations with an over-stroke, which in this case crossed the risers of the l and b (approximately l͞b, or lb).
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[[Category:English nouns|]]|
Singular |
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- (food packaging, US) Pound (unit of weight)
- 3# — "three pounds"
- (followed by a numeral: used attributively) Number
- #3 — "number three"
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[edit] .
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.
- full stop or period (used to indicate the end of a sentence).
- end of abbreviation
- etc. — “et cetera”
- In some counting systems, the decimal separator.
- In some counting systems, the thousands separator.
- (computing) a delimiter
- en.wiktionary.org — “the Internet domain name with components ‘en’, ‘wiktionary’, and ‘org’”
- document.txt — “the file with the base name ‘document’ and the extension ‘txt’”
- (computing, various operating systems) the current directory
- ls . — “list the contents of the current directory”
- (computing, various programming languages) structure access operator
- point.x — “the ‘x’ property of the ‘point’ variable”
[edit] Usage notes
In English, the symbol . has various names, used in different contexts:
- To signify the end of a sentence: period or full stop
- My name is John. - My name is John period (US) or My name is John full stop (UK)
- For use as a decimal separator: point
- 3.45 - three point four five
- For use of a thousand separator: - (not pronounced)
- There are 1.000 species left. - There are one thousand species left
- In names in computing contexts (file-names, domain-names, and so on): dot
- john.smith@example.com - john dot smith at example dot com
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- (decimal separator): , (in some counting systems)
- (thousand separator): , (in some counting systems)
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.
- (computing) the parent directory.
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:
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::
- (rare) (Used in a proportion to separate one ratio from another.)
[edit] :(
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:(
- Alternative form of :-(.
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[edit] :)
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:)
- Alternative form of :-).
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[edit] :-(
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First used with the intended purpose of expressing emotion in a post by Scott Fahlman to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general bulletin board on 19 September 1982[1].
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:-(
- (Internet, instant messaging) sad face.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (Internet, instant messaging) frowning face.
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[edit] :-)
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First used with the intended purpose of expressing emotion in a post by Scott Fahlman to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general bulletin board on 19 September 1982[1].
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:-)
- a smiley face
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[edit] :=
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:=
- Indicates that the thing on the left is defined to be the thing on the right
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<
- Less than; used to show the number on the left has a lower value than the one on the right.
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— for all x less than three
- x < 3 — x is less than three
-
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[edit] <3
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From its shape as a heart.
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<3
- (emoticon) Love.
[edit] <>
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<>
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[edit] <·
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<·
- covers. "is covered by"
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>
- Greater than, more than; used to show the number on the left has a greater value than the one on the right.
-
- for all x greater than three
- x > 3
- x is greater than three
-
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[
- left square bracket
- (mathematics) In set builder notation, an inward facing bracket represents a closed endpoint of an interval (an inward facing parenthesis denotes an open endpoint).
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,
-
- (mathematics) In ISO 31-11 notation, an inward facing bracket denotes a closed endpoint of an interval and an outward facing bracket denotes an open endpoint.
-
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]
- right square bracket
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[edit] _
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_
- The underscore symbol, often used in place of a space in email addresses.
- My email address is jon_smith@example.com.
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{
- left curly bracket
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[edit] |
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|
- (logic) vertical bar, or pipe (used to join two statements of which not both are true.)
- (mathematics) Such that; having the property that.
- (mathematics, of an expression) Evaluated at.
- x + 2 | x = 1 = 3
- (mathematics) absolute value, or, more generally, modulus
- |-3| = 3
- For x = (1,1), and y = (4,5), |x – y| = √([1–4]2 + [1–5]2) = 5
- determinant
- |A| means the determinant of the matrix A
- (mathematics) cardinality
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- (mathematics) number of connected components
-
- (statistics) conditional probability
- Pr(X|Y) — "The probability of X given Y"
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}
- right curly bracket
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- Notes:
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 ":) turns 25", 2007-09-20. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
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