On the keyboard, what do these symbols mean? `,~,^,@, and |?

Question

I know the rest of them. And how do you pronounce asterkist or whatever this (*) is? And what are the differences between these two: { [ ] }. Thank you.

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Answer 1

When you need to "Quote 'inside' a quote" you use the first. It can also be an accent. ~ means approximately equal to, I believe. ^ is a way of adding an exponent, so two squared would be 2^2. It can also mean look above. It's called a caret, I think. | is a "pipe" and is important in some programming. It was used a lot in DOS, but I've forgotten why. The brackets are used to show a thought inside a thought inside a thought, like this: { [ ( ) ] } and are very important in math, too.

Answer 2

* is prononced as-tur-us
` is an accent mark used for words from french, spanish, etc where they sometimes accent a vowel. Or for when you want a "quote within `a quote`."
~ is called tilde and is used over the "n" in some spanish words. Is also used on computers as the first letter in the name of a temporary file
^ is called carat. Used in math formulas to indicte something is "sqaured", "cubed" etc. Exponents. 2^3 means 2 times 2 times 2. 5^5 means 5x5x5x5x5.
@ the "at" sign. Used in email address for loginid@(at)website.com. Also used to mean "each" in math 5@$1.00 means 5 at $1.00 each or a total of $5.00.
| is called the "pipe". Used in computer programming to separate commands. dir|filename Not used for much else
Finally the [ and the ] are like (and) or {and} they are called brackets and are used to open [ and close ] a sentence or statement you want to set off from the others [like I am doing with this example].
Hope that helps. They are all unusual symbols rarely used in English.

Answer 3

Taking the first symbol after your question, your answer is that the symbol refers to the preceding sentence being a question. So a '?' refers to a question like..."what is the time?". The question mark (?) means that "what is the time" is actually a question, and should be answered as such. However if you did in fact mean the symbol '&' this is shorthand for the word 'AND'.

Answer 4

` is a "grave accent", commonly used in french in "à". ~ is a tilde, used in Spanish "ñ". ^ is a caret, used for marking powers, or as an up-arrow. @ is the short form of "at", used in e-mail addresses (e.g. ) and markets(e.g. Potatoes, 3 lb @ $1.00/lb, 5 lb @ 0.80/lb.). | is a pipe character, and its most common usage is "||", or the "or" command in C, C++, and other programming languages. And * is an "asterisk".

The differences between [] and {} are as follows:

{} is used for sets. [] is also used for sets, but for a different kind.

[] are used to contain () in BEDMAS, and {} are used to conatin []. Do () first, then [], and then {}.

{ is called a brace, while [ is a bracket. ( is a parenthesis, don't get those mixed up, but ( can also be called brackets.

EDIT: NOTE: the email address is a real email address. It's mine.

Answer 5

~ is used in mathematics to denote "approximately"

^ is a caret and is used in french to change the pronunciation of some letters

@ is the at-sign, originally meant each or per as in 10 @ $1 (10 at a dollar each)

| is a vertical, another mathematical symbol meaning perpendicular to (i think)

* is asterisk

() round brackets or parentheses
{} brace brackets or braces
[] square brackets or brackets

Answer 6

The name of this symbol :

Answer 7

^ is called a carrot. it has to do with exponents. for example: 5^6 or 2^3 like that.

Answer 8

@ means at
~ is a tilde (used in spanish)