What is the technical name for the following symbol? @?

Answer 1

The @ symbol (pronounced in English as the word "at"), has the official name "commercial at" under the ANSI/CCITT/Unicode character systems. It is often referred to informally as the "at symbol", the "at sign", or just "at".

Answer 2

"commercial at"

Used initially for accounting and costs...like 10 gal @ $3.95/gal.

Some argue that the symbol dates back to the 6th or 7th centuries when Latin scribes adapted the symbol from the Latin word ad, meaning at, to or toward. The scribes, in an attempt to simplify the amount of pen strokes they were using, created the ligature (combination of two or more letters) by exaggerating the upstroke of the letter "d" and curving it to the left over the "a."

Other linguists will argue that the @ sign is a more recent development, appearing sometime in the 18th century as a symbol used in commerce to indicate price per unit, as in 2 chickens @ 10 pence. While these theories are largely speculative, in 2000 Giorgio Stabile, a professor of the history of science at La Sapienza University in Italy, discovered some original 14th-century documents clearly marked with the @ sign to indicate a measure of quantity - the amphora, meaning jar. The amphora was a standard-sized terra cotta vessel used to carry wine and grain among merchants, and, according to Stabile, the use of the @ symbol ( the upper-case "A" embellished in the typical Florentine script) in trade led to its contemporary meaning of "at the price of."

Answer 3

I thought it was called an 'ampersand' ... am I confused? Who else is mad about having a symbol for a two letter word (at, the symbol doesn't even save you a KEYSTROKE for Christ's sake) but the the word 'abbreviate' is frikkin' TEN letters long?!? It's like some sick joke.

Answer 4

at the rate,at sign & at symbol.

Answer 5

Its called an ampersand

Answer 6

at or @ Der brain (or an 'a' in a circle) or a word More commonly knowed as (at)

Answer 7

I dont know but why did we shorten a two letter word, how lazy is that!?!?!

Answer 8

at

Answer 9

at

Answer 10

at-sign