comma
IPA: kˈɑmʌ
noun
- (typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- (Romanian typography) A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
- (entomology) 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.
- (music) A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
- (genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
- (rhetoric) 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.
- (figurative) A brief interval.
verb
- (rare, transitive) To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.
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Examples of "comma" in Sentences
- Is the Johannine Comma truthful
- Removing the rogue comma did the trick.
- I noted the comma between the parentheses.
- The comma is clearly visible on the poster.
- Excessive commas halt the flow of the article.
- Give generously to the Comma Foundation today.
- There is no comma in the name of the institute.
- The comma in the name of the article looks misplaced.
- Commas are as slippery as eels and as ineradicable as cockroaches.
- The comma is part of the rest of the sentence, not part of the quotation.
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