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question mark
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question mark
(gcide) | Interrogation \In*ter`ro*ga"tion\, n. [L. interrogatio: cf. F.
interrogation.]
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1. The act or process of interrogating or questioning;
examination by questions; an instance of interrogating;
inquiry.
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2. A question put; an inquiry.
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3. A point, mark, or sign, thus [?], indicating that the
sentence with which it is connected is a question. It is
used to express doubt, or to mark a query. Usually called
a question mark; called also interrogation point.
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Note: In works printed in the Spanish language this mark is
not only placed at the end of an interrogative
sentence, but is also placed, inverted [as thus
([iques])], at the beginning.
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question mark
(wn) | question mark
n 1: a punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to
indicate a question [syn: question mark, {interrogation
point}] |
question mark
(foldoc) | question mark
?
ques
"?", ASCII character 63.
Common names: query; ITU-T: question mark; ques. Rare:
whatmark; INTERCAL: what; wildchar; huh; hook; buttonhook;
hunchback.
Question mark is used, along with colon for C's lazy
triadic "if" operator (similar to the IIF function in
Visual Basic). The expression x?y:z evaluates x, then if x
is true it returns y else it returns z.
In Unix shell file name patterns, question mark matches
any single character.
(2003-06-17)
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