About The Word Comma
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Comma
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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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