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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

Example Sentences

IPO Services Leader for PwC, in an e-mail to Barron’s.

From Barron's • May 14, 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

“At this time we have no further updates to provide,” the department said in an e-mail.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

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

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

“Objection!” the prosecutor exclaimed as soon as she recognized it as an e-mail she’d written to a friend.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti