Definitions for email
email

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. electronic mail, e-mail, email(verb)

   (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in

   "you cannot send packages by electronic mail"

2. e-mail, email, netmail(verb)

   communicate electronically on the computer

   "she e-mailed me the good news"

Wiktionary(3.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. email(Noun)

   a raised or embossed image pressed into metal, such as a seal pressed into a foil and attached to a document

Freebase(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Email

   Electronic mail, most commonly referred to as email or e-mail since ca. 1993, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging. Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need connect only briefly, typically to a mail server, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages. Historically, the term electronic mail was used generically for any electronic document transmission. For example, several writers in the early 1970s used the term to describe fax document transmission. As a result, it is difficult to find the first citation for the use of the term with the more specific meaning it has today. An Internet email message consists of three components, the message envelope, the message header, and the message body.

The New Hacker's Dictionary(2.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. email

   (also written ‘e-mail’ and ‘E-mail’) 1. n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems over common-carrier lines. Contrast snail-mail, paper-net, voice-net. See network address. 2. vt. To send electronic mail.Oddly enough, the word emailed is actually listed in the OED; it means “embossed (with a raised pattern) or perh. arranged in a net or open work”. A use from 1480 is given. The word is probably derived from French émaillé (enameled) and related to Old French emmailleüre (network). A French correspondent tells us that in modern French, ‘email’ is a hard enamel obtained by heating special paints in a furnace; an ‘emailleur’ (no final e) is a craftsman who makes email (he generally paints some objects (like, say, jewelry) and cooks them in a furnace).There are numerous spelling variants of this word. In Internet traffic up to 1995, ‘email’ predominates, ‘e-mail’ runs a not-too-distant second, and ‘E-mail’ and ‘Email’ are a distant third and fourth.

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of email in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of email in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of email in a Sentence

1. Vitaly Stepanov:

   Just one email exchange.

2. Jimmy Carter:

   I have his email address.

3. Hillary Clinton:

   My personal email use was fully above board.

4. Valerie Jarrett:

   I did not receive email from Secretary Clinton.

5. Tim Cameron:

   Over 90% of people check their email every day.

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