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electronic mail

electronic mail noun: email (the system).

Noun

electronic mail (countable and uncountable, plural electronic mails)

  1. (uncountable) Email (the system).
    • Electronic mail is the single most visible application of distributed computing today.1992, Sara Radicati, Electronic Mail: An Introduction to the X.400 Message Handling Standards, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 1
    • […] the impossibility of representing such noises [‘mumble’, ‘sigh’, and ‘groan’] on a comm link or in electronic mail […]1996, Raymond, Eric S., Steele, Guy L., editors, The New Hacker's Dictionary, 3 edition, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 13
  2. (countable, rare) An email.
    • Employees are asked to exercise extreme caution when opening electronic mails and attachments sent by unknown or unfamiliar correspondents, or which require the recipient to execute a program, open an attachment or decompress an archive such as a Winzip™ file.2006, Edward Wilding, Information Risk and Security, Gower Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 306

electronic mail meaning in Tamil

electronic mail in Tamil

மின் அஞ்சல்

Forms of electronic mail

pluralelectronic mails

Words formed from electronic mail

Questions about electronic mail

What does electronic mail mean?
Electronic mail means email (the system).
What is electronic mail in Tamil?
Electronic mail in Tamil is மின் அஞ்சல். See Electronic mail meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is electronic mail?
Electronic mail is a noun.
What is the plural of electronic mail?
The plural of electronic mail is electronic mails.

Words near electronic mail in the dictionary

  1. electronic game
  2. electronic games
  3. electronic intelligence
  4. electronic keyboard
  5. electronic keyboards
  6. electronic mail
  7. electronic mails
  8. electronic media
  9. electronic medias
  10. electronic music
  11. electronic musics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: electronic mail (page history and authors); electronic mail (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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