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. definition - telecom
  1. Pronounced dot. In an e-mail address, the symbol used to separate the organization name from the domain. E-mail addresses follow the convention user@organization.domain. My e-mail address, for example, is ray@contextcorporation.com (pronounced ray at context corporation dot com), which is the e-mail address for Ray Horak (user) at The Context Corporation (organization providing the connection), a com mercial enterprise. See also domain.
  2. Period. A punctuation mark used to terminate sentences or sentence fragments that are neither interrogatory (?) nor exclamatory (!).

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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