EGAVE

comma

About 1.62 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. noun A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. noun 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.
  4. noun A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  5. noun A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  6. noun 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.
  7. noun A brief interval.
  8. noun A cloud shaped like a comma because of differential rotation of the cloud border and adjacent upward and downward vertical motions, often appearing in large and intense low-pressure systems.

Similar words

comma butterfly polygonia comma semicolon colon paragraph subparagraph decimal point semi-colon syntonic

Often followed by

after is and in to before or splice between

Word family

comma bacillus comma butterfly commas commata

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