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electronic mail
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun electronic mail has 1 sense
- electronic mail(n = noun.communication) e-mail, email - (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" is a kind of electronic communication
has particulars: freemail, junk e-mail, spam
Antonym: snail mail
CIDE DICTIONARY
electronic mail, n.
a message transmitted from one computer to another, accessible by means of a mail reading program on the receiving computer. The message may have one or many intended recipients, and may be directed by the sending program to one or to multiple receiving computers. The message is typically in the form of a computer file, and may be a simple ASCII text, or any other type of binary coded information [PJC]
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