Meaning of COMMA
| Pronunciation: | | 'kâmu
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- [n] anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
- [n] a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
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| | Synonyms: | | comma butterfly, Polygonia comma |
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| | See Also: | | brush-footed butterfly, four-footed butterfly, genus Polygonia, nymphalid, nymphalid butterfly, Polygonia, punctuation, punctuation mark | |
| Products Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Comma
Simple text and photographs introduce the comma and explain how and when to use it. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Com"ma\, n. [L. comma part of a sentence, comma, Gr. ?
clause, fr. ? to cut off. Cf. {Capon}.]
1. A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of
a sentence, written or printed.
2. (Mus.) A small interval (the difference between a major
and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.
{Comma bacillus} (Physiol.), a variety of bacillus shaped
like a comma, found in the intestines of patients
suffering from cholera. It is considered by some as having
a special relation to the disease; -- called also {cholera
bacillus}.
{Comma butterfly} (Zo["o]l.), an American butterfly ({Grapta
comma}), having a white comma-shaped marking on the under
side of the wings.
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COMputable MAthematics. An ESPRIT project at KU Nijmegen. "," ASCII character 44. Common names: ITU-T: comma. Rare: ITU-T: cedilla; INTERCAL: tail. In the C programming language, "," is an operator which evaluates its first argument (which presumably has side-effects) and then returns the value of its second argument. This is useful in "for" statements and macros.
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| | Related Terms: | | ampersand, angle brackets, apostrophe, boundary, braces, caesura, colon, dash, decimal point, diagonal, dot, ellipsis, exclamation mark, full stop, hyphen, interval, juncture, lull, parens, parentheses, pause, period, point, question mark, quotation marks, quotes, semicolon, single quotes, solidus, stop, virgule |
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