An ampersand is the symbol &, which was designed by German typesetter Manfred Johann Amper in 1634 as an abbreviation for the German word "und", which means "and" in English; hence the symbol was first known as "Amper's 'and' ", which was eventually syncopated into "ampersand", the term by which we know it today.

On a standard US keyboard the ampersand is on the same key as the numeral 7.

Her malformed pretzels looked like ampersands.

In formal symbolic logic the truth-functional connective AND is often represented by an ampersand.

ampersand by &y &erson October 26, 2010

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atpersand

The "at" smybol; you know, this thing: @

The domain name of an email address is the part after the atpersand.

atpersand by Dr. Heywood R. Floyd May 11, 2007

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Amperstand

"How did the 'T' get in there? Stupid Blackberry!"

"So, it's amperstand+hearts+semicolon only without the +?"

Amperstand by Magraloo December 12, 2009

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Ampersand

noun: the sign "&" (standing for the word 'and', as in "U & I")

“&” was actually part of the English alphabet. In the early 1800s, school children reciting their ABCs concluded the alphabet with the "&" coming after the letter 'Z'..........the alphabet was originally 27 characters long because '&' was an actual letter member.
But then Grammar Nazis decided "&" was not worthy of being in the alphabet, so they took it out (the same illogical mindset that decided Pluto was not a planet, but only a large asteroid.)

Ampersand, like Pluto were robbed of their identity!

Ampersand by Jimmy Fedd June 20, 2016

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