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Comma

Comma Meaning & Definition
Comma Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Comma?

[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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Comma: comma butterfly | Polygonia comma

Related Terms | Find terms related to Comma: 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

See Also | brush-footed butterfly | four-footed butterfly | genus Polygonia | nymphalid | nymphalid butterfly | Polygonia | punctuation | punctuation mark

Comma In Webster's Dictionary

\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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