Microsoft® Computer Dictionary

Chapter 1. Numbers and Symbols

$0.02 n.

See my two cents n..

& n.

1. UNIX command suffix for running the preceding command as a background process. See also background¹ adj.. 2. In UNIX, a root user command suffix for starting a daemon that is to remain running after logout. See also daemon n.. 3. The default character used to designate a character entity (special character) in an HTML or SGML document. See also HTML n., SGML n.. 4. In spreadsheet programs, an operator for inserting text into a formula specifying the relationship between cells.

* n.

1. A character used in applications and programming languages to signify multiplication. 2. In Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2, and other operating systems, a wildcard character that can be used in place of one or ...