Science Fair Project Dictionary
!
Translingual
Punctuation mark
!
- The symbol ! is a called an exclamation mark or exclamation point, the punctuation mark used to denote excitement, surprise or shock: The dam has burst, run for your lives!
- In some computer languages, it is colloquially called a shriek.
- In some computer languages, it means not. Example, "If !x" means "if X is not true" (Boolean).
- When used in e-mail to represent a separator for an e-mail address, it is called a bang.
- In mathematics, the symbol for factorial.
Derived symbols
- ¡ (inverted exclamation mark/point)
- ‼ (double exclamation mark/point)
- !? (exclamation and questioning)
- ‽ (interrobang)
- ⁈
- ⁉
- ﹗ (small exclamation mark/point)
- ❢ (dingbat)
- ❣ (dingbat)
- ！ (fullwidth)
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