Punctuation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The use of standard marks and signs in writing and printing to separate words into sentences, clauses, and phrases in order to clarify meaning.
  • n. The marks so used.
  • n. The act or an instance of punctuating.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In writing and printing, a pointing off or separation of one part from another by arbitrary marks; specifically, the division of a composition into sentences and parts of sentences by the use of marks indicating intended differences of effect by differences of form.
  • n. In zoology, the punctures of a punctate surface.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases
  • n. something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions
  • n. the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
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    break    interruption   
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