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Record 1 2001-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Codes (Software)
  • Office Automation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Codes (Logiciels)
  • Bureautique
OBS

Nom commun pour le signe «!».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Códigos (Soporte lógico)
  • Ofimática
OBS

Inexactamente llamado de admiración, porque no todas las exclamaciones la expresan.

OBS

Nombre del signo de puntuación "!".

OBS

Observaciones provenientes del libro "Redacción" de Antonio Miguel Saad, ed. Compañía Editorial Continental, S.A. de C.U., 1999, pág. 49.

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Record 2 1997-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language (General)
DEF

The punctuation mark ! used after exclamations and vehement commands.

OBS

This mark used for any other purpose, as to draw attention to an obvious mistake, in road warning signs, (in chess commentaries) beside the notation of a move considered a good one, (in mathematics) as a symbol of the factorial function, or (in logic) occurring with an existential quantifier.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique (Généralités)
DEF

Signe de ponctuation [!] qui suit toujours une exclamation ou une phrase exclamative.

Spanish

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Record 3 1984-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Press (News and Journalism)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Presse écrite

Spanish

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