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tone indicators

tone indicators is the plural of tone indicator.

Meaning of tone indicator

Noun

tone indicator (plural tone indicators)

  1. (Internet) A symbol conveying the tone or context of a message, often over the internet.
    • For one thing, it helps to shed light on the nature of the question mark and the exclamation point – the "tone indicators" – which I have not considered up to here.1990, Geoffrey Nunberg, chapter 5, in The Linguistics of Punctuation, Cambridge University Press, page 65
    Synonyms:
    tone tag, mood indicator

Questions about tone indicators

What is tone indicators the plural of?
Tone indicators is the plural of tone indicator.

Words near tone indicators in the dictionary

  1. tone down
  2. tone hole
  3. tone holes
  4. tone in
  5. tone indicator
  6. tone indicators
  7. tone mapping
  8. tone mark
  9. tone marks
  10. tone meeting
  11. tone meetings

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