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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 often used when addressing a couple in writing: " Mr. & Mrs. Smith " or " Jane & John ".

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

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.

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 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.

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.

* 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.

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

A query string is usually made up of a number of different name – value pairs, each separated by the ampersand symbol, &.

# extended command set-An “&” ( ampersand ) and a capital character followed by a digit.

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 ").

* The series of pairs is separated by the ampersand, '&' ( or semicolon, ';' for URLs embedded in HTML and not generated by a ; see below ).

In order to set up the modem to accept or reject certain types of connections, Hayes had added a number of new commands prefixed by < tt >&</ tt > ( the ampersand ) to the Smartmodem 2400.

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.

* The ampersand in the title was created in 1955 by then Editor Terry Galanoy who replaced the word " and " in the magazine's name because the words Road and Track were graphically too long for newsstand-effective recognition.

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 public art in the station, entitled Ampersand ( 2002 ) and created by Canadian artist Micah Lexier, consists of 17, 000 ceramic tiles each with a printed ampersand and above and below it the words " Sheppard " and " Leslie ", based on 3, 400 different pieces of handwriting from the community collected in 1997.

Though most now know the title to be Tulips & Chimneys ( with an ampersand ), Cummings's original title request was disregarded by the publisher Thomas Seltzer, who changed the ampersand to the word " and.

The query string syntax is not generically defined, but it is commonly organized as a sequence of < code >< nowiki >< key >=< value ></ nowiki ></ code > pairs, with the pairs separated by a semicolon or an ampersand.