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 n

• Jèrriais: sîngne dé dollar m
• Russian: знак доллара m (znak dóllara)

programming: used to indicate a variable

• Finnish: dollarin merkki

• Russian: знак доллара m (znak dóllara)

programming: used to indicate a hexadecimal constant

• Finnish: dollarin merkki

• Russian: знак доллара m (znak dóllara)

programming: used to indicate a constant

• Finnish: dollarin merkki

• Russian: знак доллара m (znak dóllara)

programming: used to inidcate a variable or constant containing text

• Finnish: dollarin merkki

• Russian: знак доллара m (znak dóllara)

See also

Currency signs

¤ – generic currency sign ؋ – afghani ฿ – baht ¢ – cent ₡ – colón ₵ – cedi $ – dollar ₫ – dong ֏ - dram € – euro ƒ – florin (also called guilder and gulden)

₲ – guarani ₴ – hryvnia ₭ – kip ₺ – lira (in Turkey) ₥ – mill ₦ – naira ₱ – peso £ – pound ﷼ – riyal ៛ – riel ރ – rufiyaa

₨ – rupee ௹ – 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