Table of Contents
76 relations: Alcohol proof, Alt code, Alt key, AltGr key, Android (operating system), Angle, Antoine Lavoisier, ASCII, ASTM International, AutoCAD, AZERTY, Celsius, Character Map (Windows), ChromeOS, Circle symbol, Classic Mac OS, Code page 437, Colemak, Compose key, Control key, Curve, Degree, Degree (angle), Degree (temperature), Edit menu, Fahrenheit, Film speed, General Conference on Weights and Measures, Geographic coordinate system, Geometric Shapes (Unicode block), Glyph, GTK, Halfwidth and fullwidth forms, Henry Cavendish, International Bureau of Weights and Measures, International Organization for Standardization, IOS, ISO/IEC 8859, ISO/IEC 8859-1, Jacques Pelletier du Mans, Johannes Kepler, Kelvin, LaTeX, Linux, List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks, Logarithmic scale, MacOS, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Minute and second of arc, ... Expand index (26 more) »
- Mathematical symbols
Alcohol proof
Alcohol proof (usually termed simply "proof" in relation to a beverage) is a measure of the content of ethanol (alcohol) in an alcoholic beverage.
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Alt code
On personal computers with numeric keypads that use Microsoft operating systems, such as Windows, many characters that do not have a dedicated key combination on the keyboard may nevertheless be entered using the Alt code (the Alt numpad input method).
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Alt key
The Alt key (pronounced or) on a computer keyboard is used to change (alternate) the function of other pressed keys.
AltGr key
AltGr (also Alt Graph) is a modifier key found on many computer keyboards (rather than a second Alt key found on US keyboards).
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Android (operating system)
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
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Angle
In Euclidean geometry, an angle is the figure formed by two rays, called the sides of the angle, sharing a common endpoint, called the vertex of the angle.
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 17438 May 1794), CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
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ASCII
ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
ASTM International
ASTM International, formerly known as American Society for Testing and Materials, is a standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical international standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems and services.
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AutoCAD
AutoCAD is a 2D and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) software application developed by Autodesk.
AZERTY
AZERTY is a specific layout for the characters of the Latin alphabet on typewriter keys and computer keyboards.
Celsius
The degree Celsius is the unit of temperature on the Celsius temperature scale "Celsius temperature scale, also called centigrade temperature scale, scale based on 0 ° for the melting point of water and 100 ° for the boiling point of water at 1 atm pressure." (originally known as the centigrade scale outside Sweden), one of two temperature scales used in the International System of Units (SI), the other being the closely related Kelvin scale.
Character Map (Windows)
Character Map is a utility included with Microsoft Windows operating systems and is used to view the characters in any installed font, to check what keyboard input (Alt code) is used to enter those characters, and to copy characters to the clipboard in lieu of typing them.
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ChromeOS
ChromeOS, sometimes styled as chromeOS and formerly styled as Chrome OS, is a Linux distribution developed and designed by Google.
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Circle symbol
Circle symbol may refer to (in ascending order of size, approximately).
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Classic Mac OS
Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9.
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Code page 437
Code page 437 (CCSID 437) is the character set of the original IBM PC (personal computer).
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Colemak
Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets, designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable than QWERTY by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row while keeping many common keyboard shortcuts the same as in QWERTY.
Compose key
A compose key (sometimes called multi key) is a key on a computer keyboard that indicates that the following (usually 2 or more) keystrokes trigger the insertion of an alternate character, typically a precomposed character or a symbol.
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Control key
In computing, a Control key is a modifier key which, when pressed in conjunction with another key, performs a special operation (for example, C).
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Curve
In mathematics, a curve (also called a curved line in older texts) is an object similar to a line, but that does not have to be straight.
Degree
Degree may refer to.
Degree (angle)
A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle in which one full rotation is 360 degrees.
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Degree (temperature)
The term degree is used in several scales of temperature, with the notable exception of kelvin, primary unit of temperature for engineering and the physical sciences.
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Edit menu
The Edit menu is a menu-type graphical control element found in most computer programs that handle files, text or images.
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Fahrenheit
The Fahrenheit scale is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the European physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736).
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Film speed
Film speed is the measure of a photographic film's sensitivity to light, determined by sensitometry and measured on various numerical scales, the most recent being the ISO system introduced in 1974.
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General Conference on Weights and Measures
The General Conference on Weights and Measures (abbreviated CGPM from the Conférence générale des poids et mesures) is the supreme authority of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), the intergovernmental organization established in 1875 under the terms of the Metre Convention through which member states act together on matters related to measurement science and measurement standards.
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Geographic coordinate system
A geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude and longitude.
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Geometric Shapes (Unicode block)
Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF.
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Glyph
A glyph is any kind of purposeful mark.
GTK
GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free software cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
Halfwidth and fullwidth forms
In CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) computing, graphic characters are traditionally classed into fullwidth and halfwidth characters.
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Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish (10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English natural philosopher and scientist who was an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist.
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International Bureau of Weights and Measures
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (Bureau international des poids et mesures, BIPM) is an intergovernmental organisation, through which its 59 member-states act on measurement standards in areas including chemistry, ionising radiation, physical metrology, as well as the International System of Units (SI) and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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International Organization for Standardization
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.
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IOS
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple exclusively for its smartphones.
ISO/IEC 8859
ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings.
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ISO/IEC 8859-1
ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1: Latin alphabet No.
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Jacques Pelletier du Mans
Jacques Pelletier du Mans, also spelled Peletier (Iacobus Peletarius Cenomani, 25 July 1517 – 17 July 1582) was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance.
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler (27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music.
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Kelvin
The kelvin, symbol K, is the base unit of measurement for temperature in the International System of Units (SI).
LaTeX
LaTeX (or, often stylized with vertically offset letters) is a software system for typesetting documents.
Linux
Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases.
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Logarithmic scale
A logarithmic scale (or log scale) is a method used to display numerical data that spans a broad range of values, especially when there are significant differences between the magnitudes of the numbers involved.
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MacOS
macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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Minute and second of arc
A minute of arc, arcminute (arcmin), arc minute, or minute arc, denoted by the symbol, is a unit of angular measurement equal to of one degree.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness.
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Non-breaking space
In word processing and digital typesetting, a non-breaking space, also called NBSP, required space, hard space, or fixed space (in most typefaces, it is not of fixed width), is a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position.
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O
O, or o, is the fifteenth letter and the fourth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Option key
The Option key,, is a modifier key present on Apple keyboards.
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Ordinal indicator
st described below is intentional and is different from the style 1st --> In written languages, an ordinal indicator is a character, or group of characters, following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number, rather than a cardinal number.
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Ordinal number
In set theory, an ordinal number, or ordinal, is a generalization of ordinal numerals (first, second, th, etc.) aimed to extend enumeration to infinite sets.
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Ordinal numeral
In linguistics, ordinal numerals or ordinal number words are words representing position or rank in a sequential order; the order may be of size, importance, chronology, and so on (e.g., "third", "tertiary").
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Photography
Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.
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Prime (symbol)
The prime symbol, double prime symbol, triple prime symbol, and quadruple prime symbol are used to designate units and for other purposes in mathematics, science, linguistics and music. Degree symbol and prime (symbol) are Mathematical symbols.
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Question mark
The question mark (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.
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QWERTY
QWERTY is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets.
QWERTZ
The QWERTZ or QWERTZU keyboard is a typewriter and keyboard layout widely used in Central and Southeast Europe.
Scale of temperature
Scale of temperature is a methodology of calibrating the physical quantity temperature in metrology.
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Scribal abbreviation
Scribal abbreviations, or sigla (singular: siglum), are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse.
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Shift key
The Shift key is a modifier key on a keyboard, used to type capital letters and other alternate "upper" characters.
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Space (punctuation)
In writing, a space is a blank area that separates words, sentences, syllables (in syllabification) and other written or printed glyphs (characters).
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Subscript and superscript
A subscript or superscript is a character (such as a number or letter) that is set slightly below or above the normal line of type, respectively.
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Symbol
A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship.
Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.
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Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe (born Tyge Ottesen Brahe,; 14 December 154624 October 1601), generally called Tycho for short, was a Danish astronomer of the Renaissance, known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly accurate astronomical observations.
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Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software.
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.
United States Government Publishing Office
The United States Government Publishing Office (USGPO or GPO), formerly the United States Government Printing Office, is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States Federal government.
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Windows-1252
Windows-1252 or CP-1252 (Windows code page 1252) is a legacy single-byte character encoding that is used by default (as the "ANSI code page") in Microsoft Windows throughout the Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and much of Africa.
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See also
Mathematical symbols
- 't Hooft symbol
- Armenian eternity sign
- Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol
- Commercial minus sign
- Degree symbol
- Division sign
- Double turnstile
- Equals sign
- Formulario mathematico
- Glossary of mathematical symbols
- Greater-than sign
- ISO 31-11
- Infinity symbol
- Integral symbol
- Less-than sign
- List of mathematical abbreviations
- Logic symbols
- Maps to
- Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
- Mathematical Operators (Unicode block)
- Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode
- Multiplication sign
- Nabla symbol
- Null sign
- Ordered set operators
- Percent sign
- Plus and minus signs
- Plus–minus sign
- Prime (symbol)
- Radical symbol
- Symbols for zero
- Table of mathematical symbols by introduction date
- Tetractys
- Therefore sign
- Tilde
- Tombstone (typography)
- Triple bar
- Turnstile (symbol)
- Up tack
- Vinculum (symbol)
- X mark
References
Also known as °, 0xB0, Degree (ring), Degree (symbol), Degree sign, Degrees symbol, U+00B0, \xB0, °.