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ampersat

UK/ˈæm.pə.sæt/US/ˈæm.pɚ.sæt/

ampersat noun: the at sign (@).

Noun

ampersat (plural ampersats)

  1. (rare) The at sign (@).
    • Two weeks ago, Tim Nott asked what the @, the hub of the e-mail address, should be called. […] In the UK, Tim Gowens offered the highly logical "ampersat" and the art historian Frances Marks suggested "Van Gogh's ear".[1996 February 5, David Bowen, “bits & bytes”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2022
    • […]there are users out there on the Internet right now who think that they possess an e-mail address containing neither an at-sign (@ often known as an "ampersat") nor a domain name.[2000, Wankyu Choi, Allan Kent, Chris Lea, Beginning PHP4, page 249

Synonyms of ampersat

Forms of ampersat

pluralampersats

Origin of ampersat

Blend of ampersand + at.

Questions about ampersat

What does ampersat mean?
Ampersat means the at sign (@).
What part of speech is ampersat?
Ampersat is a noun.
How do you pronounce ampersat?
Ampersat is pronounced /ˈæm.pə.sæt/ (UK).
What is the plural of ampersat?
The plural of ampersat is ampersats.

Words near ampersat in the dictionary

  1. ampers
  2. ampersand
  3. ampersanded
  4. ampersanding
  5. ampersands
  6. ampersat
  7. ampersats
  8. ampery
  9. amperzand
  10. amperzands
  11. ampesi

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