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comma
  1. (typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. (Romanian typography) A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. A European and North American butterfly, Polygonia c-album, of the family Nymphalidae.
  4. (music) a difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  5. (genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  6. In Ancient Greek rhetoric a comma (κόμμα) is a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity comma was defined as a combination of words that has no more than eight syllables. This term is later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “After finishing the first paragraph, I realized that I had forgotten to include a comma in the compound sentence.”
      “The comma thing does make me aware how much I use punctuation in general and commas specifically for intonation in my writing.”
      “Normally, a comma or other punctuation mark separates the ending or resumption of direct speech from its interruption.”
commas
  1. plural of comma
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I use inverted commas because I believe we don't actually own it but lease it from the Americans.”
      “These are the author's italics, brackets, inverted commas, and the author's absurdly pretentious diction.”
      “Lawrenson simply underlines or puts inverted commas around what Hansen says.”
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