ampersand

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I'm not sure if this applies in your situation, but a vanilla ampersand is actually illegal in XML, upon which ASP. NET is based.

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  1. noun The character or sign (&) representing the word and.

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  • When the ampersand is right up against another digit, it means that digit is repeated forever. —  AnalogSFF,October2005
  • Think of all the examples in entertainment, commerce and culture where individual brilliance is ampersand-enhanced. —  News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio
  • When you have a title tag with an & (ampersand), how should you best structure it? —  Search Engine Roundtable
  • The more seasoned among us know that ampersand-related errors are meaningless in the grand scheme of things and we wish the validator could be configured to selectively mute certain types of benign errors. —  Mike Industries
  • There are a few ways to look at this ampersand, and this is one of the reasons this character works so well. —  Smashing Magazine
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  1. Alteration of and per se and, & (the sign) by itself (means) and.

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  1. Also amperzand, ampus-and, amperse-and, am-passyand, ampussy-and, appersi-and, amperzed, etc., also simply ampassy, etc., various corruptions of and per se — and (that is, '& by itself— and').
 

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/ˈæmpɛrsænd/
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