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electronic mail

noun electronic mails

uncountable Email (the system). Electronic mail is the single most visible application of distributed computing today.
countable, rare An email. Employees are asked to exercise extreme caution when opening electronic mails and attachments sent by unknown or unfamiliar correspondents, or which require the recipient to execute a program, open an attachment or decompress an archive such as a Winzip™ file.

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@misc{electronic_mail_2026,
  title = {electronic mail},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/electronic%20mail},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}