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According to the principle of acrophony, the letter A originated from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet as a symbol representing the head of an ox or cow ( aleph ), its orientation and original meaning having been lost over time. The turned A symbol restores the letter to a more easily recognizable logographic representation of an ox's head.
A dagger, obelisk, or obelus † is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. [ 1] The symbol is also used to indicate death (of people) or extinction (of species or languages). [ 2] It is one of the modern descendants of the obelus, a mark used historically by scholars as a critical or ...
The upside-down (also inverted, turned or rotated) question mark ¿ and exclamation mark ¡ are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences or clauses in Spanish and some languages that have cultural ties with Spain, such as Asturian and Waray. [ 1] The initial marks are mirrored at the end of the sentence or clause ...
propositional logic, Boolean algebra, first-order logic. ⊥ {\displaystyle \bot } denotes a proposition that is always false. The symbol ⊥ may also refer to perpendicular lines. The proposition. ⊥ ∧ P {\displaystyle \bot \wedge P} is always false since at least one of the two is unconditionally false. ∀.
Heart symbol. The heart symbol is an ideograph used to express the idea of the "heart" in its metaphorical or symbolic sense. Represented by an anatomically inaccurate shape, the heart symbol is often used to represent the center of emotion, including affection and love, especially romantic love.
Up tack. The up tack or falsum ( ⊥, \bot in LaTeX, U+22A5 in Unicode [1]) is a constant symbol used to represent: The truth value 'false', or a logical constant denoting a proposition in logic that is always false (often called "falsum" or "absurdum"). The bottom type in type theory, which is the bottom element in the subtype relation.
Airbnb's 2014 logo redesign introduced the "Bélo" symbol, which resembles a paper clip, the letter A, or an upside-down heart. The symbol was intended to represent belonging and connection.
Glossary of mathematical symbols. A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object, an action on mathematical objects, a relation between mathematical objects, or for structuring the other symbols that occur in a formula. As formulas are entirely constituted with symbols of various ...