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ampersand

[ UK /ˈæmpəsˌænd/ ]
[ US /ˈæmpɝˌsænd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and)

How To Use ampersand In A Sentence

  • See the separated-at-birth diptych above: not quite punctuation mark and not quite ligature, the ampersand is a confection to be savored, indeed.
  • Each line is a command to run, and, with the exception of the window manager line, each command must be placed in the background using the ampersand.
  • These are little labels enclosed between an ampersand and a semi-colon.
  • The term slash comes from the way those stories were labeled with a slash (K/S) instead of an ampersand. Chicago Reader
  • As visitors tour Ampersand Printing's state-of-the-art facility, they'll experience how Ampersand Printing has drastically reduced makeready and increased efficiency to a level that allowed the amount of work that had regularly been completed during two shifts to now be done in only one thanks to JDF and the automated makeready process. Packaging and Converting ESSENTIALS
  • The single text operator (the so-called ampersand) is used in formulas to join together two or more text entries (an operation with the highfalutin 'name concatenation). Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • I'd always wondered about the source of the word "ampersand", but never got around to looking it up. Punctuation is Awesome
  • Most of my coding validates, but when it doesn't it's usually due to the fact that there's an ampersand or something like that in a link and it doesn't like it.
  • On the homepage, doing a quick validation, there's only one error that doesn't come from that code, and that's because I put an ampersand on the page without properly encoding it.
  • We catch things like unencoded ampersands and can correct some other common XHTML mistakes.
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