The Octothorpe is another moniker for the symbol known as the pound sign. The "octo" refers to the fact that there are eight points on this symbol. It is also a village comprised of eight fields around one middle square in cartography.
An octothorpe is another name for the number sign, also the pound sign (#).
the # sign on atelephone
It is called number sign, pound sign, and hashtag. Another name for it is octothorpe.
Another name for the telephone handset symbol #.
Another name for pound(on a phone) is an octothorpe.
Apostrophe.
Octothorpe, octopus, October, octagon, octane, among others.
Octothorpe
well that's simple. if you use a phone or your teacher sometimes uses it for it means number. #=number key. that's easy #= number key. to make it short it means number. # is also called an Octothorpe and is often mistakenly called a hashtag. A hashtag is the tag line AFTER the NumberKey/PoundKey/Octothorpe.
"Thorpe" is an old word meaning a small hamlet or village which is secondary or subservient to a larger nearby village. It is related to German "dorf" and Afrikaans "dorp". Probably the coiners of the word "octothorpe", which has only existed for a few decades, were visualizing a central town surrounded by eight subservient ones, giving the tic-tac-toe design which is now known as an octothorpe.
The name of the symbol is "pound sign" or "number sign". It is also known as an "octothorpe" or "hash symbol".
The octothorpe or hash sign precedes the name of the ID attribute: HTML: <div id="sidebar"> CSS: #sidebar { color: red; }