dollar sign

See also: dollar-sign

English

Noun

dollar sign (plural dollar signs)

1. punctuation symbol $, used to indicate a price in dollars.

   The total with tax is $1.05.

2. (programming) in certain languages (such as Perl or PHP), to indicate a variable.
3. (programming) in certain languages, used to indicate a hexadecimal constant.
4. (programming) in certain languages, used to indicate a constant.
5. (programming) in certain languages (such as BASIC), to indicate a variable or a constant containing text (a string) as opposed to a number.
6. (programming) in regular expressions, used to indicated the end of the string/line.

Translations

punctuation symbol $

• Finnish: dollarin merkki
• French: signe du dollar m
• German: Dollarzeichen (de) n

• Norman: sîngne dé dollar m
• Russian: знак до́ллара m (znak dóllara)
• Swedish: dollartecken (sv) n

programming: used to indicate a variable

• Finnish: dollarin merkki
• Russian: знак до́ллара m (znak dóllara)

• Swedish: dollartecken (sv) n

programming: used to indicate a hexadecimal constant

• Finnish: dollarin merkki
• Russian: знак до́ллара m (znak dóllara)

• Swedish: dollartecken (sv) n

programming: used to indicate a constant

• Finnish: dollarin merkki
• Russian: знак до́ллара m (znak dóllara)

• Swedish: dollartecken (sv) n

programming: used to inidcate a variable or constant containing text

• Finnish: dollarin merkki
• Russian: знак до́ллара m (znak dóllara)

• Swedish: dollartecken (sv) n

See also

Currency signs

• ؋‏ – afghani
• ฿ – baht
• ₿ – bitcoin
• ¢ – cent
• ₡ – colón
• ₵ – cedi
• $ – dollar
• ₫ – dong
• ֏ - dram
• € – euro
• ƒ – florin (also called guilder and gulden)
• ₲ – guarani

• ₾ – lari
• ₴ – hryvnia
• ₭ – kip
• ₺ – lira (in Turkey)
• ₼ – manat
• ₥ – mill
• ₦ – naira
• ₱ – peso
• £ – pound
• ﷼‏ – riyal
• ៛ – riel
• ރ – rufiyaa

• ₽ – ruble
• ₨ – rupee
• ௹ – rupee
• ₹ – Indian rupee
• ৲ or ৳ – taka (in Bangladesh)
• ૱ – rupee (in Gujarat)
• ₪ – new shekel
• ₸ – tenge
• ₮ – tugrik
• ₩ – won
• ¥ – yen

Formerly used currency signs

• ₳ – austral
• ₠ – ECU (European Currency Unit)
• ₢ – cruzeiro
• ₯ – drachma

• ₣ – franc
• ₤ – lira
• ₶ – Livres Tournois
• ℳ – mark

• ₧ – peseta
• ₰ – pfennig
• ₷ – spesmilo