Question

What is ampersand character?

Answer 1

The ampersand is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters et—Latin for "and".

Answer 2

In literature or English text, the ampersand is used as shorthand to mean "and," as in "John & Rob went to the baseball game." It is also used in programming languages, including Visual Basic (to combine variables and literal text), C++ (denoting an address in memory) and Perl (to call a user-defined subroutine). It can also be used in Excelspreadsheet formulas to combine several values (cells) into a single value (cell) and in HTML for extended HTML characters.



The ampersand ( & ) symbol, also referred to as the "epershand" or "and" symbol, is found above the number 7 key on a US QWERTY keyboard.