exclamation mark

British  

noun

1. the punctuation mark ! used after exclamations and vehement commands

2. this mark used for any other purpose, as to draw attention to an obvious mistake, in road warning signs, (in chess commentaries) beside the notation of a move considered a good one, (in mathematics) as a symbol of the factorial function, or (in logic) occurring with an existential quantifier

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Example Sentences

I moused over the exclamation mark next to “Onboarding” and a helpful pop-up appeared.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026

"There was a magic and majesty to it," he says, calling it an "absolute exclamation mark of who we are in this part of the world".

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025

Ohtani also put an exclamation mark on the sweep by demolishing a first-pitch fastball from reliever A.J.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2024

"Someone wise once said that the correct punctuation for a scientific advance is not an exclamation mark, but a semicolon," said Meyer.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023

Everything she said ended in an exclamation mark.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben