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ampersats

ampersats is the plural of ampersat.

Meaning of ampersat

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

Questions about ampersats

What is ampersats the plural of?
Ampersats is the plural of ampersat.

Words near ampersats in the dictionary

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

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