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- Graphemes
- Latin-script ligatures
- Logic symbols
A&P
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that operated from 1859 to 2015.
Ada (programming language)
Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, inspired by Pascal and other languages.
See Ampersand and Ada (programming language)
Adam Bede
Adam Bede was the first novel by English author George Eliot, first published in 1859.
Adobe Inc.
Adobe Inc., formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American computer software company based in San Jose, California.
Albertus (typeface)
Albertus is a glyphic serif display typeface designed by Berthold Wolpe in the period 1932 to 1940 for the British branch of the printing company Monotype.
See Ampersand and Albertus (typeface)
ALGOL 60
ALGOL 60 (short for Algorithmic Language 1960) is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages.
Allen & Unwin
George Allen & Unwin was a British publishing company formed in 1911 when Sir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co.
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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.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a work by John Locke concerning the foundation of human knowledge and understanding.
See Ampersand and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
And
And or AND may refer to.
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère (20 January 177510 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics".
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APA style
APA style (also known as APA format) is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal articles and books.
APL (programming language)
APL (named after the book A Programming Language) is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson.
See Ampersand and APL (programming language)
Apple Pie ABC
"Apple Pie ABC" is an old and enduring English alphabet rhyme for children which has gone through several variations since the 17th century.
See Ampersand and Apple Pie ABC
AppleScript
AppleScript is a scripting language created by Apple Inc. that facilitates automated control over scriptable Mac applications.
Applesoft BASIC
Applesoft BASIC is a dialect of Microsoft BASIC, developed by Marc McDonald and Ric Weiland, supplied with Apple II computers.
See Ampersand and Applesoft BASIC
Armenian alphabet
The Armenian alphabet (Հայոց գրեր, Hayocʼ grer or Հայոց այբուբեն, Hayocʼ aybuben) or, more broadly, the Armenian script, is an alphabetic writing system developed for Armenian and occasionally used to write other languages.
See Ampersand and Armenian alphabet
Armenian language
Armenian (endonym) is an Indo-European language and the sole member of the independent branch of the Armenian language family.
See Ampersand and Armenian language
ASCII
ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
AT&T Corporation
AT&T Corporation, commonly referred to as AT&T, an abbreviation for its former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was an American telecommunications company that provided voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.
See Ampersand and AT&T Corporation
AZERTY
AZERTY is a specific layout for the characters of the Latin alphabet on typewriter keys and computer keyboards.
Bash (Unix shell)
Bash, short for Bourne-Again SHell, is a shell program and command language supported by the Free Software Foundation and first developed for the GNU Project by Brian Fox.
See Ampersand and Bash (Unix shell)
BASIC
BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use.
BASIC-PLUS
BASIC-PLUS is an extended dialect of the BASIC programming language that was developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for use on its RSTS/E time-sharing operating system for the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers in the early 1970s through the 1980s.
BBC BASIC
BBC BASIC is an interpreted version of the BASIC programming language.
Bed and breakfast
Bed and breakfast (typically shortened to B&B or BnB) is a small lodging establishment that offers overnight accommodation and breakfast.
See Ampersand and Bed and breakfast
Binary operation
In mathematics, a binary operation or dyadic operation is a rule for combining two elements (called operands) to produce another element.
See Ampersand and Binary operation
Bit
The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication.
Bitwise operation
In computer programming, a bitwise operation operates on a bit string, a bit array or a binary numeral (considered as a bit string) at the level of its individual bits.
See Ampersand and Bitwise operation
Byrhtferth
Byrhtferth (Byrhtferð) was a priest and monk who lived at Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire) in England.
C (programming language)
C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.
See Ampersand and C (programming language)
C++
C++ (pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Carolingian minuscule
Carolingian minuscule or Caroline minuscule is a script which developed as a calligraphic standard in the medieval European period so that the Latin alphabet of Jerome's Vulgate Bible could be easily recognized by the literate class from one region to another.
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Character (computing)
In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.
See Ampersand and Character (computing)
Commodore 128
The Commodore 128, also known as the C128, C-128, or C.
See Ampersand and Commodore 128
Common Lisp
Common Lisp (CL) is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard document ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (S2018) (formerly X3.226-1994 (R1999)).
Computer Modern
Computer Modern is the original family of typefaces used by the typesetting program TeX.
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Concatenation
In formal language theory and computer programming, string concatenation is the operation of joining character strings end-to-end.
See Ampersand and Concatenation
Conjunction (grammar)
In grammar, a conjunction (abbreviated or) is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses that are called the conjuncts of the conjunctions.
See Ampersand and Conjunction (grammar)
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s.
See Ampersand and Digital Equipment Corporation
Dolce & Gabbana
Dolce & Gabbana, also known by initials D&G, is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1985 in Legnano by Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana.
See Ampersand and Dolce & Gabbana
Drum and bass
Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, samples, and synthesizers.
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Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.
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E
E, or e, is the fifth letter and the second vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See Ampersand and E
English alphabet
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms.
See Ampersand and English alphabet
Epsilon
Epsilon (uppercase Ε, lowercase ε or ϵ; έψιλον) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a mid<!-- not close-mid, see (1999) - Illustrations of the IPA: Modern Greek. --> front unrounded vowel or.
Escape character
In computing and telecommunication, an escape character is a character that invokes an alternative interpretation on the following characters in a character sequence.
See Ampersand and Escape character
Et cetera
Et cetera, abbreviated to etc., et cet., &c. or &c, is a Latin expression that is used in English to mean "and other things", or "and so forth".
False etymology
A false etymology (fake etymology or pseudo-etymology) is a false theory about the origin or derivation of a specific word or phrase.
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File descriptor
In Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is a process-unique identifier (handle) for a file or other input/output resource, such as a pipe or network socket.
See Ampersand and File descriptor
FileMaker
FileMaker is a cross-platform relational database application developed by Claris International, a subsidiary of Apple Inc. It integrates a database engine with a graphical user interface (GUI) and security features, allowing users to visually modify a database.
Film
A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.
Fortran
Fortran (formerly FORTRAN) is a third generation, compiled, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
Frederic Goudy
Frederic William Goudy (March 8, 1865 – May 11, 1947) was an American printer, artist and type designer whose typefaces include Copperplate Gothic, Goudy Old Style and Kennerley.
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Function (computer programming)
In computer programming, a function, procedure, method, subroutine, routine, or subprogram is a callable unit of software logic that has a well-defined interface and behavior and can be invoked multiple times.
See Ampersand and Function (computer programming)
Function application
In mathematics, function application is the act of applying a function to an argument from its domain so as to obtain the corresponding value from its range.
See Ampersand and Function application
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
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GitHub
GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.
Go (programming language)
Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.
See Ampersand and Go (programming language)
Greek alphabet
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.
See Ampersand and Greek alphabet
Green thread
In computer programming, a green thread is a thread that is scheduled by a runtime library or virtual machine (VM) instead of natively by the underlying operating system (OS).
See Ampersand and Green thread
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (Unicode block)
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms is the name of a Unicode block U+FF00–FFEF, provided so that older encodings containing both halfwidth and fullwidth characters can have lossless translation to/from Unicode.
See Ampersand and Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (Unicode block)
Handwriting
Handwriting is the personal and unique style of writing with a writing instrument, such as a pen or pencil in the hand.
Haskell
Haskell is a general-purpose, statically-typed, purely functional programming language with type inference and lazy evaluation.
Heta
Heta is a conventional name for the historical Greek alphabet letter Eta (Η) and several of its variants, when used in their original function of denoting the consonant.
Hexadecimal
In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base-16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of sixteen.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.
HyperTalk
HyperTalk is a discontinued high-level, procedural programming language created in 1987 by Dan Winkler and used in conjunction with Apple Computer's HyperCard hypermedia program by Bill Atkinson.
IBM Generalized Markup Language
Generalized Markup Language (GML) is a set of macros that implement intent-based (procedural) markup tags for the IBM text formatter, SCRIPT.
See Ampersand and IBM Generalized Markup Language
IBM System/360
The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of mainframe computer systems that was announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978. It was the first family of computers designed to cover both commercial and scientific applications and a complete range of applications from small to large.
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Ideogram
An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek 'idea' + 'to write') is a symbol that represents an idea or concept independent of any particular language.
Income statement
An income statement or profit and loss accountProfessional English in Use - Finance, Cambridge University Press, p. 10 (also referred to as a profit and loss statement (P&L), statement of profit or loss, revenue statement, statement of financial performance, earnings statement, statement of earnings, operating statement, or statement of operations) is one of the financial statements of a company and shows the company's revenues and expenses during a particular period.
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Information system
An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information.
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Insular script
Insular script is a medieval script system originating from Ireland that spread to England and continental Europe under the influence of Irish Christianity.
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Irish language
Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.
See Ampersand and Irish language
Italic type
In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting.
Jessie Bedford
Jessie Bedford (1853–1918) was a British novelist who wrote about ten novels under the name of Elizabeth Godfrey.
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Job control (Unix)
In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, job control refers to control of jobs by a shell, especially interactively, where a "job" is a shell's representation for a process group.
See Ampersand and Job control (Unix)
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical technologies corporation headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Kai (conjunction)
Kai (και "and";;; sometimes abbreviated k) is a letter that is a conjunction in Greek, Coptic and Esperanto (kaj). Kai is the most frequent word in any Greek text and thus used by statisticians to assess authorship of ancient manuscripts based on the number of times it is used. Ampersand and Kai (conjunction) are punctuation.
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Keyboard layout
A keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual, or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key-meaning associations (respectively) of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, or other computer-controlled typographic keyboard.
See Ampersand and Keyboard layout
Language change
Language change is the process of alteration in the features of a single language, or of languages in general, across a period of time.
See Ampersand and Language change
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.
See Ampersand and Latin alphabet
Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
See Ampersand and Latin script
Letter case
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (or more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages.
Letterlike Symbols
Letterlike Symbols is a Unicode block containing 80 characters which are constructed mainly from the glyphs of one or more letters. Ampersand and Letterlike Symbols are Latin-script letters and typographical symbols.
See Ampersand and Letterlike Symbols
Ligature (writing)
In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph. Ampersand and ligature (writing) are Latin-script ligatures.
See Ampersand and Ligature (writing)
Lingo (programming language)
Lingo is a verbose object-oriented (OO) scripting language developed by John H. Thompson for use in Adobe Director (formerly Macromedia Director).
See Ampersand and Lingo (programming language)
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. Ampersand and List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks are typographical symbols.
See Ampersand and List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks
Logic
Logic is the study of correct reasoning.
Logical conjunction
In logic, mathematics and linguistics, and (\wedge) is the truth-functional operator of conjunction or logical conjunction.
See Ampersand and Logical conjunction
Logical connective
In logic, a logical connective (also called a logical operator, sentential connective, or sentential operator) is a logical constant. Ampersand and logical connective are logic symbols.
See Ampersand and Logical connective
Logogram
In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek 'word', and 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme. Ampersand and logogram are graphemes.
Machine code
In computer programming, machine code is computer code consisting of machine language instructions, which are used to control a computer's central processing unit (CPU).
See Ampersand and Machine code
Machine code monitor
A machine code monitor (machine language monitor) is software that allows a user to enter commands to view and change memory locations on a computer, with options to load and save memory contents from/to secondary storage.
See Ampersand and Machine code monitor
Marks & Spencer
Marks and Spencer plc (commonly abbreviated to M&S and colloquially known as Marks or Marks & Sparks) is a major British multinational retailer based in London, England, that specialises in selling clothing, beauty products, home products and food products.
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Markup language
A markup language is a text-encoding system which specifies the structure and formatting of a document and potentially the relationship between its parts.
See Ampersand and Markup language
Memory address
In computing, a memory address is a reference to a specific memory location used at various levels by software and hardware.
See Ampersand and Memory address
Metacharacter
A metacharacter is a character that has a special meaning to a computer program, such as a shell interpreter or a regular expression (regex) engine.
See Ampersand and Metacharacter
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is an integrated suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications offered by Microsoft.
See Ampersand and Microsoft Dynamics 365
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Miller (typeface)
Miller is a serif typeface, released in 1997 by the Font Bureau, a U.S.-based digital type foundry.
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MLA Handbook
MLA Handbook (9th ed., 2021), formerly MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (1977–2009), establishes a system for documenting sources in scholarly writing.
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Motorway (typeface)
Motorway is a sans-serif typeface designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for use on the motorway network of the United Kingdom.
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MySQL
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).
Name–value pair
A name–value pair, also called an attribute–value pair, key–value pair, or field–value pair, is a fundamental data representation in computing systems and applications.
See Ampersand and Name–value pair
Notes and Queries
Notes and Queries, also styled Notes & Queries, is a long-running quarterly scholarly journal that publishes short articles related to "English language and literature, lexicography, history, and scholarly antiquarianism".
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Noto fonts
Noto is a font family comprising over 100 individual computer fonts, which are together designed to cover all the scripts encoded in the Unicode standard.
OCR-A
OCR-A is a font issued in 1966 and first implemented in 1968.
Octal
Octal (base 8) is a numeral system with eight as the base.
Online Etymology Dictionary
The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper.
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P&O
P&O (in full, The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company) was a British shipping and logistics company dating from the early 19th century.
Parameter (computer programming)
In computer programming, a parameter or a formal argument is a special kind of variable used in a subroutine to refer to one of the pieces of data provided as input to the subroutine.
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Pascal (programming language)
Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language, designed by Niklaus Wirth as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
See Ampersand and Pascal (programming language)
PDP-11
The PDP–11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the late 1990s, one of a set of products in the Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series.
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development.
Plus and minus signs
The plus sign and the minus sign are mathematical symbols used to denote positive and negative functions, respectively.
See Ampersand and Plus and minus signs
Portuguese Angola
In southwestern Africa, Portuguese Angola was a historical colony of the Portuguese Empire (1575–1951), the overseas province Portuguese West Africa of Estado Novo Portugal (1951–1972), and the State of Angola of the Portuguese Empire (1972–1975).
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POSIX
The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems.
Printing
Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.
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Query string
A query string is a part of a uniform resource locator (URL) that assigns values to specified parameters.
See Ampersand and Query string
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. Ampersand and question mark are punctuation and typographical symbols.
See Ampersand and Question mark
QWERTY
QWERTY is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets.
Raku (programming language)
Raku is a member of the Perl family of programming languages.
See Ampersand and Raku (programming language)
Read-only memory
Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices.
See Ampersand and Read-only memory
Reference (C++)
In the C++ programming language, a reference is a simple reference datatype that is less powerful but safer than the pointer type inherited from C. The name C++ reference may cause confusion, as in computer science a reference is a general concept datatype, with pointers and C++ references being specific reference datatype implementations.
See Ampersand and Reference (C++)
Regular expression
A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp), sometimes referred to as rational expression, is a sequence of characters that specifies a match pattern in text.
See Ampersand and Regular expression
Relation algebra
In mathematics and abstract algebra, a relation algebra is a residuated Boolean algebra expanded with an involution called converse, a unary operation.
See Ampersand and Relation algebra
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D; also known in Europe as research and technological development or RTD) is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products and carrier science computer marketplace e-commerce, copy center and service maintenance troubleshooting software, hardware improving existing ones.
See Ampersand and Research and development
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.
See Ampersand and Rhythm and blues
Roman cursive
Roman cursive (or Latin cursive) is a form of handwriting (or a script) used in ancient Rome and to some extent into the Middle Ages.
See Ampersand and Roman cursive
RSS
RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format.
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic (endonym: Gàidhlig), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland.
See Ampersand and Scottish Gaelic
Screenplay
A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show, or video game (as opposed to a stage play) by screenwriters.
SGML entity
In the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), an entity is a primitive data type, which associates a string with either a unique alias (such as a user-specified name) or an SGML reserved word (such as #DEFAULT).
Short-circuit evaluation
Short-circuit evaluation, minimal evaluation, or McCarthy evaluation (after John McCarthy) is the semantics of some Boolean operators in some programming languages in which the second argument is executed or evaluated only if the first argument does not suffice to determine the value of the expression: when the first argument of the AND function evaluates to false, the overall value must be false; and when the first argument of the OR function evaluates to true, the overall value must be true.
See Ampersand and Short-circuit evaluation
Shorthand
Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language.
Sigil (computer programming)
In computer programming, a sigil is a symbol affixed to a variable name, showing the variable's datatype or scope, usually a prefix, as in $foo, where $ is the sigil.
See Ampersand and Sigil (computer programming)
Sindhi language
Sindhi (or सिन्धी) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 30 million people in the Pakistani province of Sindh, where it has official status.
See Ampersand and Sindhi language
Standard Generalized Markup Language
The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML; ISO 8879:1986) is a standard for defining generalized markup languages for documents.
See Ampersand and Standard Generalized Markup Language
T
T, or t, is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
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Tab stop
A tab stop on a typewriter is a location where the carriage movement is halted by an adjustable end stop.
TeX
TeX (see below), stylized within the system as, is a typesetting program which was designed and written by computer scientist and Stanford University professor Donald Knuth and first released in 1978.
Tiffany & Co.
Tiffany & Co. (colloquially known as Tiffany's) is an American luxury jewelry and specialty design house headquartered on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
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Tironian notes
Tironian notes (notae Tironianae) are a form of thousands of signs that were formerly used in a system of shorthand (Tironian shorthand) dating from the 1st century BCE and named after Tiro, a personal secretary to Marcus Tullius Cicero, who is often credited as their inventor. Ampersand and Tironian notes are Latin-script letters.
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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.
URL
A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
VICE
The software program VICE, standing for VersatIle Commodore Emulator, is a free and cross platform emulator for Commodore's 8-bit computers.
Windows Forms
Windows Forms (WinForms) is a free and open-source graphical (GUI) class library included as a part of Microsoft.NET,.NET Framework or Mono, providing a platform to write client applications for desktop, laptop, and tablet PCs.
See Ampersand and Windows Forms
Wingdings
Wingdings is a series of dingbat fonts that render letters as a variety of symbols.
Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the generic term of two different American labor unions, representing writers in film, television, radio, and online media.
See Ampersand and Writers Guild of America
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data.
See also
Graphemes
- Alphabets
- Ampersand
- At sign
- Chinese characters
- Debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters
- Diacritics
- Glyph
- Glyphs
- Grapheme
- Hamza
- Hieroglyphs
- Letterform
- Logogram
- Mathematical symbols
- Mongolian numerals
- Morphogram
- Numeral system
- Phonogram (linguistics)
- Sawndip
- Th (digraph)
Latin-script ligatures
- Æ
- Œ
- ß
- Ampersand
- At sign
- Db ligature
- E caudata
- IJ (digraph)
- Ligature (writing)
- Ou (ligature)
- Qp ligature
- W
Logic symbols
- Ampersand
- Arrow (symbol)
- Conjunction/disjunction duality
- Descending wedge
- Double turnstile
- Existential quantification
- Free variables and bound variables
- Glossary of Principia Mathematica
- Horseshoe (symbol)
- List of logic symbols
- Literal (mathematical logic)
- Logical connective
- Logical connectives
- Logical constant
- Lozenge (shape)
- Metavariable
- Modal operator
- Non-logical symbol
- Predicate variable
- Propositional variable
- Sheffer stroke
- Symbol (formal)
- Tee (symbol)
- Therefore sign
- Tilde
- Triple bar
- Turned A
- Turnstile (symbol)
- Universal quantification
- Up tack
- Vertical bar
- Wedge (symbol)
References
Also known as &, & sign, &, '20s (disambiguation), '78 (disambiguation), ASCII 38, Ambersand, Amp;, Ampers'and, Ampersam, Ampersand (&), Ampersand (punctuation), Ampersands, Ampersant, Amperstamp, And per se and, And sign, And symbol, And, per se, and, Andpersand, Andperseand, Epershand, Oya-kaigan Station, Oyakaigan Station, Sarafxanli, U+0026, U+00C0, U+00C1, U+00C2, U+00C3, U+00C4, U+00C5, U+00C7, U+00C8, U+00C9, U+00CA, U+00CB, U+00CC, U+00CD, U+00CE, U+00CF, U+00D1, U+00D2, U+00D3, U+00D5, U+00D6, U+00D8, U+00DA, U+00DB, U+00DC, U+00DD, U+00DF, U+00E0, U+00E1, U+00E2, U+00E3, U+00E4, U+00E5, U+00E7, U+00E8, U+00EA, U+00EB, U+0100, U+0101, U+05BC, \x26, , ּ (disambiguation).