What does question mark mean?

Definitions for question mark
ques·tion mark

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. question mark, interrogation pointnoun

    a punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question

Wiktionary

  1. question marknoun

    The punctuation mark ?, used at the end of a sentence to indicate a question.

  2. question marknoun

    doubt or uncertainty

Wikipedia

  1. Question mark

    The question mark ? (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates an interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.

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  1. question mark

    A question mark is a punctuation symbol (?,) used at the end of a sentence to indicate a direct question. It denotes a request for a response or further information and is widely used in written language to express uncertainty or doubt.

Wikidata

  1. Question mark

    The question mark, is a punctuation mark that replaces the full stop at the end of an interrogative sentence in English and many other languages. The question mark is not used for indirect questions. The question mark character is also often used in place of missing or unknown data. In Unicode, it is encoded at U+003F ? question mark.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of question mark in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of question mark in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of question mark in a Sentence

  1. Marcelle Daher:

    The biggest question mark for investors today is going to be an indication as far as timing is concerned for when The Federal Reserve is going to begin their balance sheet reduction plans, in general they have indicated September, with the last rate hike for 2017 to fall in the December time frame, so anything that confirms or denies that assumption is going to be interesting for the market.

  2. Neil Saunders:

    But there is still a huge question mark over if and when things will get back to normal.

  3. Marc Mogull:

    The macro risks are too great and the likely timeframe for recovery is too long for most of the players in our space to view Greece as being worth the effort at this early stage, a BIG QUESTION MARK.

  4. Jose Luis Meiszner:

    Today, let's put a giant question mark over the possibility of playing that Cup in the United States, the president of one of the confederations is under arrest, the companies that own the rights have had their funds blocked...nobody can seriously say that things in the future are going to be as foreseen.

  5. Bertrand Russell:

    In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.


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