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What is "electronic mail"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
electronic mail
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An estimated 35 million people now send electronic mail.
▪ Dwight Silverman can receive electronic mail via the Internet.
▪ Even in electronic mail I could find myself - and I see this among women colleagues - adopting a more relaxed approach.
▪ It should also enable the integration of electronic mail, voice mail and facsimile, as well as desktop audio and video conferencing.
▪ Send electronic mail to neighborhood leaders in BelairEdison.
▪ That includes writing reports, sending electronic mail and cruising the information superhighway.
▪ The message could come in forms such as speech, electronic mail, facsimile or a video clip.
▪ They can also exchange electronic mail messages and take part in, or initiate, electronic conferences.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Electronic mail

Electronic mail \E`lec*tron"ic mail\, n. (Computers) 1. 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

Syn: email. [PJC]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
electronic mail

1977; see e-mail.

Wiktionary
electronic mail

n. 1 (context uncountable English) e-mail (''the system''). 2 (context countable rare English) An e-mail.

WordNet
electronic mail

n. (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in [syn: e-mail, email] [ant: snail mail, snail mail, snail mail]

Usage examples of "electronic mail".

Well, some in CIA thought that China lusted after the mineral riches in eastern Siberia--- this was suggested by intercepts and other access to the electronic mail of the Japanese industrialists who'd twisted their nation's path into a not-quite-open clash with America.

Well, some in CIA thought that China lusted after the mineral riches in eastern Siberia -- this was suggested by intercepts and other access to the electronic mail of the Japanese industrialists who'd twisted their nation's path into a not-quite-open clash with America.

His electronic accounts at work in the financial district and at home were the most valuable, since he distrusted voice communications and preferred electronic mail for all of his important contacts with the outside world.

That sort of thing is designed to protect the originator of electronic mail, I guess so people can swap porno over the Net.