what is the origin for the symbol for PAUSE?  (II)?
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It probably has its roots in the notation for a Grand Pause in music, at which all instruments stop playing until started again by the conductor, or possibly the caesura which is used to note where a pause comes in the middle of a line of verse.
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a minus sign with a dot above it and a dot below it.\n\nMENTALLY SUPERIMPOSE THESE TWO CHARACTERS \n:-
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Could you clarify your question just a bit, please? Where did you see these initials?
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Any English word beginning with a (silent) k comes from the Low German (Dutch), where it was not silent but sounded : eg knob was knop, knife was knif.  In a word like knight, you have a double-German hangover : knight was knecht.  Early on in England they decided to spell the "ch" as "gh".
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This depends on how the line is going across. If the line is horizontal and divides the circle in half, then the symbol is a 'theta', which usually stands for an angle. If it is from lower left to upper right and extends beyond the circle both ways, then it could be the symbol for the empty set or (in some books) zero. If it is close to vertical and extends beyond the circle in both ways, then it is a 'phi' and again usually represents an angle.
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From Wiki:"The use of the Greek letter π for this constant is derived from Greek words like περιφέρεια (for periphery) and περίμετρον (for perimeter) starting with this letter.\nThe name of the Greek letter π is pi, and this spelling is used in typographical contexts where the Greek letter is not available or where its usage could be problematic. When referring to this constant, the symbol π is always pronounced like "pie" in English, the conventional English pronunciation of the letter."\n\nFrom Online Etymology Dictionary:\nPi: "1841, used in L. 1748 by Swiss mathematician Leonhart Euler (1707-83), from Gk. letter pi (from Heb., lit. "little mouth") as an abbreviation of Gk. periphereia "periphery." "\n\nMy initial guess was that it was derived from Latin, since many of our words have Latin origins.  But, apparently it is Greek in origin and is used because the Greek symbol Pi means perimeter thus corresponding to circles.
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Greetings from the Yahoo Brain in New York City!  \nHope you're watching the live Answers webcast at http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/asktheplanet/brain.html !\n\n\nAs the first answer indicated, it's Computer Aided Design.  Although I usually see it as a period-less acronym, like this:  CAD\n\nTake care,\n--J.
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It means "about" or "roughly."\n\nFor example:\nThe world population is ~6.5 Billion.\n\nOnline it's used for lots of things, including making decorative section breaks, such as this:\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n\nIf it's on top of a letter, such as with "ñ" or "Ñ," then it's an accent mark. (FYI - you can make these characters by holding the "Alt" key while entering the numbers "164" or "165," respectively.\n\nHope this helps.
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Ive wondered that myself, and realized that its in other phrases too like "im going to take a break" so its probably grammatical.  *shrug* who knows for sure
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You have written the name of something followed by a question mark. \n\nIt is meaningless.\n\nWhat are your trying to find out?
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It is the section sign used generally in legal tomes.  It is associated with law and justice. I've seen it before, too.   Sometimes you see this on tickets when you are cited for a driving infraction. It tells you which section in the legal code you've managed to not follow.   Trying to find it without going over to the police department was a bit of a challenge.  (I live only a block and a half from the police station and hospital.  LOL!)\n\nI finally found it in Wikipedia by typing in ampersand.  Ampersand and tilde are the only names I know to the plethora of symbols out there.
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i'm not sure how accurate this is but apparently the dollar ($) symbol originally started off as a letter "U" superimposed onto a letter "S" to indicate that the currency was from the US and over time the bottom of the U was dropped off as the dollar was adopted by other countries so it was just left as an S with 2 vertical lines through it.\ni'm not too sure about the other currency symbols though.
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You have written the name of something followed by a question mark.\n\nIs is meaningless.
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The sign is attested in business correspondence between British North America and Mexico in the 1770s as referring to the Spanish-Mexican piastre. The piastre was known as "Spanish dollar" in British North America, and in 1785, it was adopted as U.S. currency, together with both the term "dollar" and the $ sign.\n\nThe sign's ultimate origins are not certain. The most widely accepted explanation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is that "$" is a corruption of the letters "PS" or "Ps" (for 'peso' or 'piastre' - especially the former, as each letter could represent each syllable of "Pé-So") written over each other in Spanish. Eventually, the 'P' was reduced to a vertical line.\n\nAnother possibility is that it derives from the British notation 8/ for eight shilling, referring to the Spanish 8 reales coin ("piece of eight"), which later became the USA dollar. Others derive it from the Portuguese Cifrão sign .\n\nEarliest usage wrote the sign with a single vertical stroke. For some time, the double-stroke symbol  was common, but is now again falling out of use.
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it's just a symbol to indicate\na right angle-hit the site below\nfor more details of angles etc\n\nhttp://www.coolmath.com/\n\ni hope that this helps
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The cross symbol could denote matter, and the u shaped symbol could be denoting a boat or a convergence.  Perhaps it is simply stating that the can is a conveyance of matter?  OR it is saying the can is a matter boat.\n\nA more practical approach might be that it is simply an attention seeking, mnemonic activating device for marketing purposes.
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i think - what ?%?^@^@$%R does that mean... wouldve searched for it online but hey, got plenty more questions to answer before the net gets jammed and slows down and all..\n\ncheers..