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• a variation of email.

e-mail

British  

/ ˈiːmeɪl /

noun

1. short for electronic mail

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verb

1. to contact (a person) by electronic mail

2. to send (a message, document, etc) by electronic mail

e-mail Scientific  

/ ē′māl′ /

1. A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer network. E-mail is asynchronous and does not require the receiver of the message to be online at the time the message is sent or received. E-mail also allows a user to distribute messages to large numbers of recipients instantaneously.

2. A message or messages sent or received by such a system.

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e-mail Cultural  

1. E-mail has become one of the most widely used aspects of the Internet, because it provides a means of mass communication to almost anywhere in the world at high speed.

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The proliferation of spam and the transmission of computer viruses through e-mail attachments are two of the more problematic aspects of this technology.

Other Word Forms

• e-mailer
  noun

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Example Sentences

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e-mail

"No one can guarantee the safety of Onkalo for thousands of years," director Tapani Veistola told AFP in an e-mail.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington D.C., said via e-mail that the two leaders would discuss “major issues concerning China-U.S. relations and world peace and development.”

From Barron's ● May 12, 2026

“The way we work at Cloudflare has fundamentally changed,” Chief Executive Matthew Prince and Chief Operating Officer Michelle Zatlyn told employees in an e-mail.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Even my MP e-mail gets 1000 emails a day.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

I read in one of Papi’s business etiquette books that you should never write an e-mail or a letter when you’re mad because you’re likely to shoot your mouth off and say something you’ll regret.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

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