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Comma

//ˈkɒmə// noun, verb

Noun

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The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
"No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma. In the fifteenth century this punctuation was improved by the famous Aldus Manutius with the typographical art in general; when he gave a better shape to the comma, added the semicolon, and assigned to the former points more proper places."
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anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing wordnet
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A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark. Romanian
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a punctuation mark (‘,’) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence wordnet
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Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
"Commas (Polygonia comma) and Question Marks (Polygonia interrogationis) occur from the Gulf Coast to Canada and west to the Rockies. [...] Question Marks and Commas are handsome butterflies with burnt orange and black markings. [...] On the underside of each hind wing of the Comma is a small, distinctive silver hook that resembles a comma."

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A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
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A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
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In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma. rhetoric
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A brief interval. figuratively

Verb

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To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas. rare, transitive

Etymology 1

From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “I cut”).

Etymology 2

From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “I cut”).

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