number sign in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "number sign",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "number signs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "The character # used to represent the word number; the hash sign; also called the pound sign in the United States of America."
      ],
      "id": "simple-number_sign-en-noun-6EA95xSC",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "number sign"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "number sign",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "number signs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The character # used to represent the word number; the hash sign; also called the pound sign in the United States of America."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "number sign"
}

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"number sign" meaning in English

Noun