_ (English symbol name underscore or underline)
- Used to indicate a space to be filled in. Often, the symbol is used repeatedly to form a longer line.
Age: __ Gender: _
Sign here: _________________________________ Date: __________
- (mathematics, in plain text) Separates a symbol with a subscript character, representing a variant of the base symbol.
- (computing) Used to represent what would normally be a space ] [ in computing.
My email address is jon_smith@example.com.
- Used as a cursor to indicate a place where text can be typed. On visual display units, the underscore may be made to blink.
MS-DOS prompt: C:\>_
- (programming) Especially as a prefix: used to denote a special identifier such as a global or private variable or a reserved symbol.
- _ _ (encloses text for emphasis)
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- (nonstandard) Used to separate multiple gendered inflections in gender-neutral writing.
- Synonym: *
- Coordinate term: -In (with Binnen-I)
Freund_innen; ein_e Beamt_er_in- friends (of any gender); an officer (of any gender)