exclamation mark

noun

1. the punctuation mark ! used after exclamations and vehement commands
2. this mark used for any other purpose, as to draw attention to an obvious mistake, in road warning signs, (in chess commentaries) beside the notation of a move considered a good one, (in mathematics) as a symbol of the factorial function, or (in logic) occurring with an existential quantifier

Example Sentences

He may be known for the Virgule, but the feeling of his new exhibition more closely resembles an exclamation mark.

From The Daily Beast

His beard was long, and his forehead dabbed with an exclamation mark of red paint.

From The Daily Beast

And every click of the coach wheels on the rail breaks added just another exclamation mark to that thought.

From Project Gutenberg

In the Folios the interrogation mark and the exclamation mark are often interchanged.

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This word "Dixi" appeared very frequently in Kisliakov's letters, and always with a double exclamation mark.

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