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Apostrophe
Definitions
- 1 The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
"Since its inception the apostrophe has been a controversial piece of punctuation."
- 2 A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent. countable, rhetoric, uncountable
"Apostrophe a bold digression makes, Mov'd by some sudden thought the theme awakes."
- 3 An arrangement of chlorophyll grains perpendicular to the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to epistrophe (an arrangement on the outer surface).
"As is well known, chloroplast in the epistrophe position presents an oval or more or less circular form; in the apostrophe position a flattened and lenticular form."
- 4 the mark (‘'’) used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word wordnet
- 5 address to an absent or imaginary person wordnet
Etymology
From French apostrophe, or Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “I turn away”), from ἀπό (apó, “away from”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”).
From Latin apostrophe, from Ancient Greek ἀποστροφή (apostrophḗ), from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “I turn away”), from ἀπό (apó) + στρέφω (stréphō, “I turn”).
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