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@

@

@ U+0040, @
COMMERCIAL AT
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[U+003F]
Basic Latin A
[U+0041]
See also: Appendix:Variations of "a" and Appendix:Variations of "at"

Translingual

Etymology

A cursive variation of or ᾱᾱ, the abbreviation of Greek ἀνά (aná) used in recipes and prescriptions with the meaning "of each", and later extended to accounting. (Other explanations have that it is ā, an abbreviation of Latin ad (to), or French à (to).)

Symbol

@

  1. At the rate of; per.
    7 @ $2 = $14 (that is, seven, at two dollars each, are fourteen dollars).
  2. (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address ("at" the domain name).
    My e-mail address is psychonaut@example.com.
  3. (computing, IRC) The most common choice of configurable prefix symbol to identify a channel operator.
  4. (Internet) Prepended to the name of the user to whom a remark is addressed.
    Bob: How can I stop other people from accessing my files when they use my computer?
    Jack: @Bob: You need to protect the files with a password.

Derived terms

  • (small form variant)

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English

Preposition

@

  1. at a rate of (so much each)
    15 items @ $10
    @ 80 km/h (at eighty kilometres per hour)
  2. (informal, neologism) at (any sense)
    @ 20°C (at twenty degrees Celsius)
    Text message: "im @ school."

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Hebrew

Symbol

@

  1. (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.

Usage notes

The symbol is called כְּרוּכִית (krukhit, strudel; at sign, @), or sometimes colloquially שְׁטְרוּדֶל (strudel; at sign, @).


Hungarian

Symbol

@

  1. (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.

Usage notes

The symbol is called kukac (worm) in Hungarian because of its shape.


Japanese

Symbol

@

  1. at a rate of
    500@¥5
    500 items at a rate of 5 yen
  2. (slang) remaining (stands for あと (ato), mostly used in MMORPG)
    @5個
    @5こ
    @5 ko
    5 items remaining
    @1時間で寝る
    @1じかんでねる
    @1 jikan de neru
    I'll go to bed in a hour

Usage notes

The symbol is called 単価記号, たんかきごう (tanka kigō), アットマーク (attomāku), or アット (atto).


Malagasy

Abbreviation

@

  1. (informal) Abbreviation of amin'ny.

Portuguese

Symbol

@

  1. The symbol for the arroba unit of weight.

Russian

Symbol

@

  1. @

Usage notes


Serbo-Croatian

Symbol

@

  1. @

Usage notes

The sign has several possible names:

  • et
  • manki (Croatian)
  • луда »а« (luda »a«, literally crazy ‘a’) (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • мајмун (majmun) (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Spanish

Symbol

@

  1. The symbol for the arroba unit of weight and volume.
  2. The symbol for o and a to include both masculine and feminine forms.
    l@s alumn@s = los alumnos y las alumnas (the male and female students)

Turkish

@

Symbol

@

  1. her biri (each)