BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: E-mail
- electronic mail, a message sent across the Internet, or a system for transferring messages between computers, mobile phones, or other communications attached to the Internet
Wiktionary Definition for: E-mail
- #(''uncountable'') A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network.
- Ex: ''He sent me his details via '''e-mail'''.''
- Ex: ''The advent of '''e-mail''' has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.''
- #(''countable; see'' '''Usage notes''' ''below'') An e-mail message.
- Ex: ''I am searching through my old '''e-mails'''.''
- Ex: ''He sent me several '''e-mails''' last week to that effect.''
- #(''uncountable; see'' '''Usage notes''' ''below'') A quantity of e-mail messages.
- Ex: ''I am searching through my old '''e-mail'''.''
- Ex: ''My inbox used to only allow 50 MB of '''e-mail''' at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!''
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- External links 2009-10-15
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- External links 2009-10-21
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- News items 2009-10-20
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- News items 2009-11-02
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- News items 2009-09-03
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- News items 2009-10-14
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