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electronic mail en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Email (the system).
   • Electronic mail is the single most visible application of distributed computing today. 1992, Sara Radicati, Electronic Mail: An Introduction to the X.400 Message Handling Standards, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 1:
   • […] the impossibility of representing such noises [‘mumble’, ‘sigh’, and ‘groan’] on a comm link or in electronic mail […] 1996, Raymond, Eric S., Steele, Guy L., editors, The New Hacker's Dictionary, 3 edition, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 13:
2. (countable, rare) An email.
   • Employees are asked to exercise extreme caution when opening electronic mails and attachments sent by unknown or unfamiliar correspondents, or which require the recipient to execute a program, open an attachment or decompress an archive such as a Winzip™ file. 2006, Edward Wilding, Information Risk and Security, Gower Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 306:

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Deriveds

e-mail · email