at

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at is part of the Basic English 850.

Contents 1 Pronunciation 2 Preposition 2.1 Synonyms 3 Symbol 3.1 See also

[change] Pronunciation

• enPR: ăt
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[change] Preposition

Preposition at

1. Used to describe where something is, or when saying something's position

   I am at home.

   Let's meet at the pub!

2. The time at which something happened or will happen

   Breakfast is at 9 o'clock

   At 5pm we went home.

3. Indicating something's state

   At half price!

   Water boils at high temperatures.

[change] Synonyms

• about
• by
• on
• in
• from
• to

[change] Symbol

Symbol at sign

Symbol @

1. The @ symbol, used to replace at

   support@microsoft.com is an email address.

   SETI@Home is the SETI project in your home.

   Apples @ £1.50 per kilogram.

[change] See also

• @

Punctuation marks (edit)

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) • brackets ( [] ) ( {} ) • colon ( : ) • comma ( , ) • dashes ( – ) ( — ) • ellipsis ( ... ) • exclamation mark ( ! ) • hyphen ( ‐ ) ( - ) • parentheses ( () ) • period / full stop ( . ) • question mark ( ? ) • quotation marks ( ' ' ) ( " " ) • semicolon ( ; ) • slash ( / ) Other: ampersand ( & ) • asterisk ( * ) • at ( @ ) • backslash ( \ ) • bullet ( • ) ( · ) • degree ( ° ) • number sign / pound sign ( # ) • tilde ( ~ ) • underscore ( _ ) • vertical bar / pipe ( | ) •