ALL meanings of exclamation mark
- noun Technical meaning of exclamation mark (character) The character "!" with ASCII code 33. Common names: bang; pling; excl (/eks'kl/); shriek; ITU-T: exclamation mark, exclamation point (US). Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka; soldier; INTERCAL: spark-spot. The Commonwealth Hackish, "pling", is common among Acorn Archimedes owners. Bang is more common in the USA. The occasional CMU usage, "shriek", is also used by APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists. Exclamation mark is used in C and elsewhere as the logical negation operation (NOT). 1
- noun exclamation mark Punctuation mark “!” (used to denote excitement, surprise or shock). 0
- countable noun exclamation mark An exclamation mark is the sign ! which is used in writing to show that a word, phrase, or sentence is an exclamation. 0
- noun exclamation mark the punctuation mark ! used after exclamations and vehement commands 0
- noun exclamation mark this mark used for any other purpose, as to draw attention to an obvious mistake, in road warning signs, (in chess commentaries) beside the notation of a move considered a good one, (in mathematics) as a symbol of the factorial function, or (in logic) occurring with an existential quantifier 0