"at-sign" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "at-signs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "at-sign (plural at-signs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "at sign"
        }
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Wankyu Choi, Allan Kent, Chris Lea, Beginning PHP4, page 249",
          "text": "[…]there are users out there on the Internet right now who think that they possess an e-mail address containing neither an at-sign (@ often known as an \"ampersat\") nor a domain name.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of at sign"
      ],
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        [
          "at sign",
          "at sign#English"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "at-sign"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "at-signs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "at-sign (plural at-signs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "at sign"
        }
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Wankyu Choi, Allan Kent, Chris Lea, Beginning PHP4, page 249",
          "text": "[…]there are users out there on the Internet right now who think that they possess an e-mail address containing neither an at-sign (@ often known as an \"ampersat\") nor a domain name.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of at sign"
      ],
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        [
          "at sign",
          "at sign#English"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "at-sign"
}