Comma

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Grammar A punctuation mark ( , ) used to indicate a separation of ideas or of elements within the structure of a sentence.
  • n. A pause or separation; a caesura.
  • n. Any of several butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having wings with brownish coloring and irregularly notched edges.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Punctuation mark (,) (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list).
  • n. A diacritical mark used below certain letters in Romanian.
  • n. A European and North American butterfly, Polygonia c-album, of the family Nymphalidae.
  • n. a small or very small interval between two enharmonic notes tuned in different ways.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.
  • n. A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In ancient Grammar and rhetoric, a group of a few words only; a phrase or short clause, forming part of a colon or longer clause.
  • n. In ancient prosody: A fragment or smaller section of a colon; a group of a few words or feet not constituting a complete metrical series.
  • n. The part of a dactylic hexameter ending with, or that beginning with, the cesura; also, the cesura itself.
  • n. A clause.
  • n. In rhetoric, a slight pause between two phrases, clauses, or words.
  • n. In musical acoustics: The interval between the octave of a given tone and the tone produced by taking six successive whole steps from the given tone, represented by the ratios , or 531441:524288. Also called the Pythagorean comma, or comma maxima.
  • n. The interval between the larger and the smaller whole steps, represented by the ratio , or 81:80. Also called the Didymic or syntonic comma.
  • n. In punctuation, a point (,) used to indicate the smallest interruptions in continuity of thought or grammatical construction, the marking of which contributes to clearness.
  • n. A spot or mark shaped like such a comma.
  • n. In entomology: A butterfly, Grapta comma-album: so named from a comma-shaped white mark on the under side of the wings.
  • n. [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of lepidopterous insects.
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  • n. a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
  • n. anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    punctuation mark    punctuation    brush-footed butterfly    nymphalid    four-footed butterfly   
    Cross Reference
    comma bacillus   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Drama    Fujiyama    Fukuyama    Gama    Hama   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    italics    semicolon    parenthesis    adverb    hyphen   
     
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