The pound sign (£) is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British...
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is known variously in English-speaking regions as the number sign, hash, or pound sign. The symbol has historically been used for a wide range of purposes...
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Kingdom Pound (mass), a unit of mass Pound (force), a unit of force Rail pound, in rail profile A basis weight of paper, related to grammage Pound sign, the...
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other languages. In English the euro sign – like the dollar sign ⟨$⟩ and the pound sign ⟨£⟩ – is usually placed before the figure, unspaced, the reverse...
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and nine of its associated territories. The pound (sign: £) is the main unit of sterling, and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency...
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and for "Kinzcash", the currency of the online game Webkinz. "When is a backslash not a backslash?". archives.miloush.net. Pound sign#Double dash style...
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The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in both the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. Various definitions have...
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Currency symbol (redirect from Intl. currency sign)
pound of silver. Newly invented currencies and currencies adopting new symbols have symbolism meaningful to their adopter. For example, the euro sign...
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L (section Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations)
currency sign for the British pound sterling (to abbreviate the Latin libra, a pound, see £sd); in modern usage, it has been overtaken by the pound sign (£)...
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explosion. Euro sign Indian rupee sign Pound sign Ruble sign Rupee sign Spanish dollar Turkish lira sign Yen and yuan sign Won sign As of April 2022[update]...
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most hash signs in Europe now follow the 80 degree inclination.[citation needed] The pound sign (not to confused with the pound currency sign) was adopted...
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The pound (sign: £; ISO code: GIP) is the currency of Gibraltar. It is pegged to – and exchangeable with – British pound sterling at par value. Coins and...
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The pound is the currency of the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. The symbol is the pound sign, £. The ISO...
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C-sharp (redirect from C pound sign)
Look up C sharp or C♯ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. C-sharp, C♯, or C# may refer to: C♯ (musical note) C-sharp major, a musical scale C-sharp minor...
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Mill (currency) (redirect from Pound and mill)
decades of discussion on decimalisation as a 1⁄1000 division of sterling's pound. While this system was never adopted in the United Kingdom, the currencies...
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The pound (sign: £, £A for distinction) was the currency of Australia from 1910 until 14 February 1966, when it was replaced by the Australian dollar...
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encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially...
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indicate special keywords that the C preprocessor had to process first. The pound sign was adopted for use within IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks around 1988...
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Bar (diacritic) (section Currency signs with bar)
stroke or bar was used to indicate abbreviation. For example, ⟨£⟩, the pound sign, is a stylised form of the letter ⟨Ꝉ⟩ (the letter ⟨L⟩ with a cross bar)...
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a horizontal stroke through the middle and looks very similar to the pound sign £. In the cursive lowercase letter, the stroke is also horizontal and...
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for schwa. In the eighteenth-century Caslon metal fonts, the British pound sign (£) was set with a rotated italic uppercase J. The following rotated (turned)...
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The pound (abbreviation: IMP; sign: £), or Manx pound (Manx: Punt Manninagh; in order to distinguish it from other similar-named currencies), is the currency...
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use of the £ (pound) and € (euro) currency symbols, which are common needs in the United Kingdom and Ireland, although the $ (dollar sign) symbol is also...
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on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the top 40 hit "Pound Sign (#?*!)". In addition, he wrote Sammy Kershaw's 2003 single "Beer, Bait...
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form of mathematical notation Number sign (#), also known as the hash, hash mark, or (in American English) pound sign Service stripe, a military and paramilitary...
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry...
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Medical prescription (redirect from Rx sign)
imperative form of recipere meaning "receive" or "take". Compare with Pound sign#Origin. Transliteration as Rx is ubiquitous but erroneous, it is not an...
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ASCII. The £ sign was not mapped to 0x23 as in the British variant of ASCII (ISO-646-GB), allowing both the pound sign and the number sign (#) simultaneously...
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The Palestine pound (Arabic: جُنَيْه فِلَسْطَينِيّ, junayh filastini; Hebrew: פוּנְט פַּלֶשְׂתִינָאִי (א״י), romanized: funt palestina'i (eretz-yisra'eli)...
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