Text style Emoji style #︎ #️ Text style isforced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩. also #
A # used on a telephone keypad # (English symbol name number sign or hash or pound sign or octothorpe )
( computing ) Thehash character.( Internet ) Ahashtag , which is ametadata tag for use inmicroblogging andsocial network services, used tolabel andsearch content.2019 June 27, Lisa Respers France, “Country star Jake Owen claps back at anti-LGBTQ commenter”, inCNN [1] (in English):“Some of my closest friends and coworkers, are part of the# lgbt community and I couldn’t be more happy for the progress they have made,” Owen wrote in the caption.
( cartography ) Used to denote avillage . ( chess notation) Used to denotecheckmate . Synonym: ++ ( medicine , shorthand) Used to denote abone fracture . # NOF ―fractured neck of femur ( mathematics , computer science ) Used to indicate stringconcatenation . 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. Seeapartness 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 ) Thecardinality of a set.# { 5 , 3 , 7 , 11 } = 4 {\displaystyle \#\{5,3,7,11\}=4} Synonyms: card ,| | ( linguistics ) Used to indicate that a sentence isgrammatical butsemantically strange. # Jane is a great hostess and John is too.
# I slept a wink last night.
# Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
( phonology ) Used to indicate a word boundary. d → t / _# ―/d/ devoices to [t] before a word boundary ( sign language linguistics ) Used to indicate alexicalized 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. #00FF00
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Alternative form of‡ Alternative form of⌗ ( “ key available on telephone keypads ” ) ( music ) Alternative form of♯ ( “ sharp ” ) .Derived from the abbreviationlb forLatin libra ( “ pound ” ) , via the medieval convention of indicating abbreviations with a bar,℔ .
# (plural # or #s )
( US ) Pound (unit ofweight ).3# ―threepounds ( attributive , precedes a numeral) Number .Synonym: no. # 3 ―number three( Internet slang , text messaging ) Number .1986 December 14, Ben Robbins, “Operator Denies Request For Gay Phone# ”, inGay Community News , volume14 , number22 , page 2:
1997 June 17, RYankowski[ username] , “Why collect new U.S.?”, inrec.collecting.stamps [2] (Usenet ):I have collected U.S. Stamps since I was a boy back in the 1950's. At that time there was a low# being printed and it was affordable.
( Scrabble ) In English-languageScrabble , indicates that a word is only found in the British acceptedword list and not the North American list. #
( Mainland China ) alternative form of號 / 号 ( “ number ” ) ,used after a numeral.