Aug 15, 2019 · The general prohibition sign (official name, according to ISO 7010), also known as a no symbol, no sign, circle-backslash symbol, nay, interdictory circle or universal no, is a red circle with a red diagonal line through it (running from top left to bottom right), completely enclosing a pictogram to indicate something is not permitted. The ...

Oct 17, 2006 · Welcome, SilviaVirus. Not to anticipate your clarification, but just a general comment about No vs N°. As No can easily be confused with the word "no", it's generally best to include the stop: "No." (even these days, when it's acceptable to write many abbreviations without stops). The disadvantage with that is that the stop tends to break the ...

Jul 5, 2017 · Using a checkmark in a table is fine for Yes. In that case, however, there is no need for an X for No because the absence of the checkmark implies No. You can also use a solid dot symbol for Yes (opposite of the Japanese meaning), …

Mar 10, 2014 · No symbol. The no symbol (also prohibition sign, no sign, circle-backslash symbol, nay, or universal no) is a circle with a diagonal line through it (running from top left to bottom right), surrounding a pictogram used to indicate something is not permitted.

Aug 23, 2014 · Of course, in general, we call all these superscripts 'ordinal indicators,' and "suffixes," 'ordinal suffixes.' (We can see that there's no suffix as such until we come to 4, as we have ordinal names.

Aug 13, 2018 · Why does English use "No." as an abbreviation for "Number"? It's a preserved scribal abbreviation like the ampersand & (formed by eliding the letters of et to mean and). The OED has it in use from the 8th century, based on the ablative numerō used for an implied preposition in: X in or according to number.

Jun 24, 2012 · There is no symbol for "and/or" likely because in technical or scientific realms "or" means "just A, just B, or both A and B." Restated, "or" in technical realms is inclusive. "Exclusive or" or "xor" (pronounced eks-or) means only "just A or just B."

May 30, 2013 · Both "w/" and "w/o" were common U.S. abbreviations in correspondence, and in tight spots on data tables, until recently.

Sep 9, 2010 · When the symbol includes a non-letter character as well as letter, leave no space: 32°C not 32° C or 32 °C However, the International System of Units, or SI, requires a space to be used to separate the unit symbol from the numerical value, and this also applies to the symbol for the degree Celsius, as 32 °C.

Mar 9, 2015 · Thanks, would vote up but cannot…Wikipedia says No is an "abbreviation of the word number(s) indicating ordinal numeration" (my emph), which is why "№ of males in sample 5" feels awkward to me, but "Number of males in sample № 5" does not. I agree that lay-out and design allow some leeway.