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noun

a system for sending messages from one individual to another via telecommunications links between computers or terminals.

a message sent by e-mail: Send me an e-mail on the idea.

verb (used with object)

to send a message to by e-mail.

Also, E-mail, email.

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World English Dictionary

e-mail or email (ˈiːmeɪl)

—n
1.	short for electronic mail

—vb
2.	to contact (a person) by electronic mail
3.	to send (a message, document, etc) by electronic mail

email or email

—n

—vb

'e-mailer or email

—n

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Word Origin & History

e-mail

1982, short for electronic mail (1977; see mail (1)); this led to the contemptuous application of snail mail (1983) to the old system.

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Science Dictionary

e-mail or email

(ē'māl') Pronunciation Key

A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer network. E-mail is asynchronous and does not require the receiver of the message to be online at the time the message is sent or received. E-mail also allows a user to distribute messages to large numbers of recipients instantaneously.
A message or messages sent or received by such a system.

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Cultural Dictionary

e-mail (electronic mail)

E-mail has become one of the most widely used aspects of the Internet, because it provides a means of mass communication to almost anywhere in the world at high speed.

Note: The proliferation of spam and the transmission of computer viruses through e-mail attachments are two of the more problematic aspects of this technology.

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Computing Dictionary

e-mail definition

electronic mail

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

e-mail
electronic mail

Example sentences

Email is still, somehow, a gummed and sealed paper mail envelope.

Email is not the means by which you tell someone that you want to marry them,

or that you want to fire them.

Email allows us to transfer information quickly and saves us from having to go

to a different website to stay updated.

Throughout the day, the student might log in from the dorm and read email.

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"This is the Night Mail crossing the Border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
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The shop at the corner, the girl next door."

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