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Definition of 'comma'English
Noun
(en-noun)
Punctuation]] mark ([[, ) (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list).
(by extension) A diacritical mark used below certain letters in Romanian.
A European and North American butterfly, , of the family Nymphalidae.
(music) a difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
(genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
In Ancient Greek rhetoric a comma (?????) is a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity comma was defined as a combination of words that has no more than eight syllables. This term is later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
Derived terms
( punctuation mark)
* commaless
* Harvard comma
* inverted comma
( rel-mid)
* Oxford comma
* serial comma
( rel-bottom)
Similar to 'comma'coma, cauma, canna, china, cama, cima, cyma, chenna, chomma, chana, channa, choana
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