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An ampersand ( or epershand ; "&") is a logogram representing the conjunction word " and ".

The word ampersand is a conflation of the phrase " and per se and ", meaning " and symbol which by itself and ".

The modern ampersand is virtually identical to that of the Carolingian minuscule.

The italic ampersand, to the right, is originally a later et-ligature.

The modern italic type ampersand is a kind of et-ligature that goes back to the cursive scripts developed during the Renaissance.

The ampersand should not be confused with the Tironian " et " (“⁊”), which is a symbol similar to the numeral 7.

In everyday handwriting, the ampersand is sometimes simplified as an < font size = 4 > ε </ font > superimposed by a vertical line.

The ampersand is now less common in formal writing.

The main surviving use of the ampersand is in the formal names of businesses ( especially firms and partnerships, particularly law firms, architectural firms, and stockbroker firms ).

The ampersand is also used for book and movie titles, such as Harry & Tonto, and in some other proper names.

The ampersand is used by the Writers Guild of America to denote when two writers collaborated on a specific script, rather than having rewritten another writer's work.

In APA style, the ampersand is used when citing sources in text such as ( Jones & Jones, 2005 ).

In the list of references, an ampersand precedes the last author's name when there is more than one author.

The ampersand can be used to indicate that the " and " in a listed item is a part of the item's name and not a separator ( e. g. " Rock, pop, rhythm & blues, and hip hop ").

This is accomplished by placing an ampersand at the end of the first line and at the beginning of the second line.

In Common Lisp, the ampersand is the prefix for lambda list keywords.

The ampersand is occasionally used as a prefix to denote a hexadecimal number, such as for decimal 255, for instance in BBC BASIC.

The ampersand character is used as a special character in at least some versions of the database software originally created in Denmark under the name Navision ( the software has since been acquired by Microsoft ).

* In Perl 6, the ampersand sigil is only used when referring to a subroutine as an object, never when calling it

In SGML, XML, and HTML, the ampersand is used to introduce an SGML entity.

The HTML and XML encoding for the ampersand character is the entity "& amp ;" ( pronounced " amper-amp ").

This creates what is known as the ampersand problem.

In the plain TeX markup language, the ampersand is used to mark tabstops.

The principal types of graphemes are logograms, which represent words or morphemes ( for example, Chinese characters, or the ampersand & representing the English word and ; also Arabic numerals ); syllabic characters, representing syllables ( as in Japanese kana ); and alphabetic letters, corresponding roughly to phonemes ( see next section ).

The name has also been changed ; it was originally " Good n ' Fruity ", with the new name containing an ampersand instead of " n '".

The ampersand often appeared as a letter at the end of the Latin alphabet, as for example in Byrhtferð list of letters from 1011.

Route shields on this section, which includes the Pulaski Skyway, often show both numbers in the same shield, with a dash or ampersand between ( 1 – 9 or 1 & 9 ).

The name arises from the use of the slash symbol (/) in mentions in the late ' 70s of K / S ( meaning stories where Kirk and Spock had a romantic often sexual relationship ) as compared to the ampersand (&) conventionally used for K & S or Kirk and Spock friendship fiction.

Notes & Queries ( always with an ampersand, both on paper and online ) is a weekly column in The Guardian newspaper which publishes readers ' questions together with ( often humorous ) answers submitted by other readers.

In the 20th century, following the development of formal logic, the ampersand became a commonly used logical notation for the binary operator or sentential connective AND.

Applesoft BASIC used the ampersand as an internal command, not intended to be used for general programming, that invoked a machine language program in the computer's ROM.

In Microsoft Windows menus, labels and other captions, the ampersand is used to denote the keyboard shortcut for that option ( Alt + that letter, which appears underlined ).

In English, the ampersand & is used for and and et ( such as & c for et cetera ), % for percent, $ for dollar, # for number, € for euro, £ for pound, etc.

The scientific version printed parentheses, equal sign and plus sign in place of four less frequently used characters in the commercial character set: percent, lozenge, pound, and ampersand.

Switching to an ampersand, it became The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction with the sixth issue ( February 1951 ), returning to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction when it went monthly with issue 17 ( October 1952 ).

Where a team of writers works together on a screenplay, their names are joined by an ampersand (&), and when two teams of writers work successively on a script, the teams are joined by and.

* The use of the ampersand instead of the word ' and ' when he is using ' and ' as a word to connect two adjectives, such as, deranged & insane

The Writers Guild of America allows only three writing credits on a feature film, although teams of two are credited as one, separated on the credits by an ampersand (" X & Y ").

* Applesoft could be extended by two means: the ampersand (&) command and the USR () function.

A simple Internet search finds millions of sequences in HTML pages for which the algorithm to replace an ampersand by the corresponding character entity reference was probably applied repeatedly.

: Some writers use the tilde (~), or N, instead of ; and some use the ampersand (&), the prefixed K, or instead of.

The France Télécom logo called " ampersand " was given a more rounded shape and the graphic guidelines were modified.

This last phrase was routinely slurred to " ampersand " and the term crept into common English usage by around 1837.

The ampersand can be traced back to the 1st century A. D. and the Old Roman cursive, in which the letters E and T occasionally were written together to form a ligature ( figure 1 ).

However, while the ampersand was in origin a common ligature in the everyday script, the Tironian " et " was part of a highly specialised stenographic shorthand.

In such names, a comma never follows the word just before the ampersand.

When the ampersand forms part of a registered name ( e. g. Smith & Wesson ), it should not be replaced with and.