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== Translingual ==
=== Symbol ===
# (English symbol name number sign or hash or pound sign or octothorpe)
(computing) The hash character.
(Internet) A hashtag, which is a metadata tag for use in microblogging and social network services, used to label and search content.
(cartography) Used to denote a village.
(chess notation) Used to denote checkmate.
Synonym: ++
(medicine, shorthand) Used to denote a bone fracture.
#NOF ― fractured neck of femur
(mathematics, computer science) Used to indicate string concatenation.
1
#
2
=
12
{\displaystyle 1\#2=12}
(mathematics) Apartness, a binary relation such that if a#b, then any other element c is apart from at least one of a,b. See apartness relation.
(mathematics) Primorial.
Coordinate term: ! (“factorial”)
12
#
=
2
×
3
×
5
×
7
×
11
=
2310
{\displaystyle 12\#=2\times 3\times 5\times 7\times 11=2310}
(set theory) The cardinality of a set.
#
{
5
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3
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7
,
11
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=
4
{\displaystyle \#\{5,3,7,11\}=4}
Synonyms: card, | |
(linguistics) Used to indicate that a sentence is grammatical but semantically strange.
(phonology) Used to indicate a word boundary.
d → t / _# ― /d/ devoices to [t] before a word boundary
(sign language linguistics) Used to indicate a lexicalized sign.
(Usenet) Used to pad the left side of a quotation from a manual or official source.
Coordinate term: >
(programming) Used to indicate a hexadecimal color code.
Alternative form of ‡
Alternative form of ⌗ (“key available on telephone keypads”)
(music) Alternative form of ♯ (“sharp”).
==== Derived terms ====
== English ==
=== Etymology ===
Derived from the abbreviation lb for Latin libra (“pound”), via the medieval convention of indicating abbreviations with a bar, ℔.
=== Pronuciation ===
The pronunciation is usually that of its meaning; see pound, number and hashtag.
=== Noun ===
# (plural # or #s)
(US) Pound (unit of weight).
3# ― three pounds
(attributive, precedes a numeral) Number.
Synonym: no.
#3 ― number three
(Internet slang, text messaging) Number.
(informal, preceding a phrase) Hashtag.
(Scrabble) In English-language Scrabble, indicates that a word is only found in the British accepted word list and not the North American list.
==== Related terms ====
£
=== Further reading ===
Number sign on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
== Chinese ==
=== Alternative forms ===
(superscript) #
=== Pronunciation ===
=== Noun ===
#
(Mainland China) alternative form of 號 / 号 (“number”), used after a numeral.