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What (who) is ampersand - definition
AMPERSAND - A LOGOGRAM REPRESENTING THE CONJUNCTION WORD "AND"
And symbol; And sign; Amperstamp; ﹠; &; And, per se, and; Ampersands; Ampersand (&); Ampersam; ＆; Epershand; Ambersand; Andpersand; Ampersand (punctuation); & sign; U+0026; And per se and; 🙰; 🙱; 🙲; 🙳; 🙴; 🙵; & Ampersant; Ampers'and; ASCII 38; \x26; & Andperseand
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ampersand
<character> "&" ASCII character 38.
Common names: ITU-T, INTERCAL: ampersand; amper; and.
Rare: address (from C); reference (from C++); bitand;
background (from sh); pretzel; amp.
A common symbol for "and", used as the "address of" operator
in C, the "reference" operator in C++ and a bitwise
AND operator in several programming languages.
UNIX shells use the character to indicate that a task
should be run in the background.
The ampersand is a ligature (combination) of the cursive
letters "e" and "t", invented in 63 BC by Marcus Tirus [Tiro? ]
as shorthand for the Latin word for "and", "et".
The word ampersand is a conflation (combination) of "and, per
se and". Per se means "by itself", and so the phrase
translates to "&, standing by itself, means 'and'". This was
at the end of the alphabet as it was recited by children in
old English schools. The words ran together and were
associated with "&". The "ampersand" spelling dates from
1837.
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(2000-10-28)
Ampersand
·noun A word used to describe the character /, /, or &.
ampersand
['amp?sand]
¦ noun the sign & (standing for and, as in Smith & Co., or the Latin et, as in &c.).
Origin
C19: alt. of and per se and '& by itself is and', chanted as an aid to learning the sign.
Wikipedia
Ampersand
The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters et—Latin for "and".
Examples of use of ampersand
1. The News–Press, founded in 1855, was bought by Ampersand Publishing LLC in 2000 from The New York Times Co.
2. McCaw, a local philanthropist active on environmental and animal rights issues, bought the paper through her company Ampersand Holdings LLC from The New York Times Co. in 2000.
3. She has said the resignations were prompted by her unwillingness to let editors and reporters flavor the news with their personal opinions.‘‘ The News–Press, founded in 1855, is locally owned and published by McCaw‘s Ampersand Publishing LLC, which bought the paper in 2000 from the New York Times Co.