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What is the difference between octothorpe and ammas?

octothorpe | ammas |

As nouns the difference between octothorpe and ammas

is that octothorpe is {{context|chiefly|us|lang=en}} the hash or square symbol ({{unsupported|#}}), used mainly in telephony and computing while ammas is (amma).

octothorpe

English

Alternative forms

* octothorp

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, US) The hash or square symbol (), used mainly in telephony and computing
  • * 1982 , Willard R. Espy, A Children's Almanac of Words at Play , Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., page 230
    • Octothorp is the
  • on a push-button telephone. Rumor at the telephone company is that a man named Charles B. Octothorp, wanting to make his name famous...
  • * 2004 , Andrew Pitonyak, Openoffice.Org Macros Explained , Hentzenwerke, page 139
    • Strings are enclosed in double quotation marks, numbers are not enclosed in anything, and dates and Boolean values are enclosed between octothorpe (
  • ) characters.

    • Synonyms

    * hash, octothorn, pound sign, number sign, hashtag, tic-tac-toe sign, naughts and crosses sign/symbol

    See also

    *

    External links

    * (Number sign)

    ammas

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * *