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The symbol for the element astatine.


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At, symbol for the element astatine.



The symbol for the element astatine.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium
  Synonyms: astatine, atomic number 85


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In Unix-like computer operating systems, the at command is used to schedule commands to be executed once, at a particular time in the future.

More precisely, it reads a series of commands from standard input and collects them into one "at-job" which is carried out at a later date. The at-job inherits the current environment, so that it is executed in the same working directory and with the same environment variables set as when it was scheduled.

It differs from cron which is used for recurring executions (e.g. once an hour, every Tuesday, January 1 every year). As with cron, many Unix systems allow the administrator to restrict access to the at command.

at can be made to mail a user when done carrying out a scheduled job of theirs, can use more than one job queue, and can read a list of jobs to carry out from a file instead of standard input. A sample command to compile a C program at 11:45 a. m. on January 31st and e-mail the results (STDOUT and STDERR) to your user ID would be:

$ echo "cc -o foo foo.c" | at 1145 jan 31

or

$ at 1145 jan 31
at> cc -o foo foo.c
at> ^D (press Control-D while at the beginning of a line)

In some Unix-like computer operating systems it uses a daemon, atd, which waits in the background periodically checking the list of jobs to do and executing those at their scheduled time on behalf of at.

Using the batch command instead of at, it can be made to only run scheduled jobs if the system's load average is below 0.8 per default.

Windows NT/2000/XP/7 also has an at command (similar to cron), but it is deprecated in favor of Task Scheduler.

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