Symbol Meaning: Capital "V" with Crossbar

[ckirmser]

I've run across a symbol on a NASA paper from 1984 that I am not familiar with and that I could not find in a web search.

It's a capital 'V' with a horizontal cross bar through its center. Any ideas?

 

[bhillyard]

Was it an inverted upper case A? If so it might be the logic symbol meaning "for all".

 

[SteamKing]

Can you post an image of this symbol or provide a link to the paper?

 

[Mark44]

Did it look like this?
$$\forall$$

 

[berkeman]

Did it look like this?
$$\forall$$

What's it mean?

 

[Mark44]

Did it look like this?
$$\forall$$

What's it mean?

It means "for each" or "for all".

 

[ckirmser]

Well, with what I've been doing, I had become accustomed to the nomenclature of a paper being right up there by the introduction or abstract. So, I finally came to the end of this NASA paper and discovered - ta daaa!

The nomenclature.

So, the symbol, V with a horizontal cross-bar (duplicated by going into Word, or some such, typing a capital V and clicking the strike-through button), anyway, that symbol stands for, "Volume of ion production region (m³)."

Still trying to learn what that is - I am, by no means, really understanding more than the concepts of this paper - so, I don't know what that is, though I kind of have a guess.

 

[ckirmser]

Can you post an image of this symbol or provide a link to the paper?

Here's a link; http://projects-web.engr.colostate.edu/ionstand/graduates/papers/Brophy Dissertation.pdf

 

[LCKurtz]

Here's a link; http://projects-web.engr.colostate.edu/ionstand/graduates/papers/Brophy Dissertation.pdf

Nice. You give us a 125 page document but no hint on what page to look for your symbol.

 

[FeDeX_LaTeX]

Nice. You give us a 125 page document but no hint on what page to look for your symbol.

Just skimmed through it, there's a symbol matching his description first appearing at the bottom of page 30, in equation (12). Can't work out what it means though -- it appears again on page 38.

EDIT: Just checked the glossary at the bottom. It means "volume of ion production region", measured here in cubic metres.

EDIT 2: According to post #7, the OP has already discovered this...