octothorpn.

Brit.

/ˈɒktə(ʊ)θɔːp/, U.S.

/ˈɑktəˌθɔrp/

Forms: 1900s– octothorp, 1900s– octothorpe.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: octo- comb. form, proper name Thorpe.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < octo- comb. form + the surname Thorpe (compare thorp n.: see note below).The term was reportedly coined in the early 1960s by Don Macpherson, an employee of Bell Laboratories:1996 Telecom Heritage No. 28. 53 His thought process was as follows: There are eight points on the symbol so octo should be part of the name. We need a few more letters or another syllable to make a noun... (Don Macpherson..was active in a group that was trying to get Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals returned from Sweden). The phrase thorpe would be unique. For an alternative explanation see quot. 1996; in a variant of this explanation, the word is explained as arising from the use of the symbol in cartography to represent a village. For a different explanation from a former employee of Bell Laboratories, arguing that the word is a completely arbitrary formation (and that it originally had the form octatherp) see D. A. Kerr ‘The ASCII Character Octatherp’ in http://doug.kerr.home.att.net (2006).

Telephony (originally North American).

The hash sign (#), as it appears on the buttons of touch-tone telephones and some other keypads.

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1973 U.S. Patent 3,920,926 The pad provides keys for numerals 0 to 9, while..the octothorp (#) key generates a command to send the contents of the memory into the telephone line.

1975 Vancouver Province 15 Nov. (Canad. Mag.) 32 Punch an octothorpe when you reach your desk every morning, and the accounting department automatically registers you in.

1987 Radio & Electronics World Feb. 47/1 As well as the numbers 1 to 9 and 0, you also have buttons marked with a star and square (also known as hash or octothorp).

1996 New Scientist 30 Mar. 54/3 The term ‘octothorp(e)’ (which MWCD10 dates 1971) was invented for ‘#’, allegedly by Bell Labs engineers when touch-tone telephones were introduced in the mid-1960s. ‘Octo-’ means eight, and ‘thorp’ was an Old English word for village: apparently the sign was playfully construed as eight fields surrounding a village.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	octothorp
释义	octothorpn. Brit. /ˈɒktə(ʊ)θɔːp/, U.S. /ˈɑktəˌθɔrp/ Forms: 1900s– octothorp, 1900s– octothorpe. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: octo- comb. form, proper name Thorpe. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < octo- comb. form + the surname Thorpe (compare thorp n.: see note below).The term was reportedly coined in the early 1960s by Don Macpherson, an employee of Bell Laboratories:1996 Telecom Heritage No. 28. 53 His thought process was as follows: There are eight points on the symbol so octo should be part of the name. We need a few more letters or another syllable to make a noun... (Don Macpherson..was active in a group that was trying to get Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals returned from Sweden). The phrase thorpe would be unique. For an alternative explanation see quot. 1996; in a variant of this explanation, the word is explained as arising from the use of the symbol in cartography to represent a village. For a different explanation from a former employee of Bell Laboratories, arguing that the word is a completely arbitrary formation (and that it originally had the form octatherp) see D. A. Kerr ‘The ASCII Character Octatherp’ in http://doug.kerr.home.att.net (2006). Telephony (originally North American). The hash sign (#), as it appears on the buttons of touch-tone telephones and some other keypads. ΚΠ 1973 U.S. Patent 3,920,926 The pad provides keys for numerals 0 to 9, while..the octothorp (#) key generates a command to send the contents of the memory into the telephone line. 1975 Vancouver Province 15 Nov. (Canad. Mag.) 32 Punch an octothorpe when you reach your desk every morning, and the accounting department automatically registers you in. 1987 Radio & Electronics World Feb. 47/1 As well as the numbers 1 to 9 and 0, you also have buttons marked with a star and square (also known as hash or octothorp). 1996 New Scientist 30 Mar. 54/3 The term ‘octothorp(e)’ (which MWCD10 dates 1971) was invented for ‘#’, allegedly by Bell Labs engineers when touch-tone telephones were introduced in the mid-1960s. ‘Octo-’ means eight, and ‘thorp’ was an Old English word for village: apparently the sign was playfully construed as eight fields surrounding a village. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1973
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