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ampersand

(pronounced: am-per-sand or the and sign)

The symbol most commonly used to mean "and." It is also used in HTML as one of the characters of the code that forces a blank space (which looks like ). In computer programming, "&" represents a "logical and" and two ampersands are used in the programming language C.

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NetLingo Classification: Symbols

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