comma

IPA: kˈɑmʌ

(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.

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

Examples of "comma" in Sentences

But whatever you call the comma, is it right or wrong?
Not a comma is out of place; and the tone — ah! — is lofty, so lofty.
That's usually what we call the comma cloud, where we kind of -- the hook echo.
But when in doubt, a comma is always tasteful and never out of style -- as long as one uses it correctly.
(_Grapta interrogationis_); comma (_Vanessa comma_), 153; orange; white (_Aphrodite_), 154; white cabbage (_Pontia oleracea_) 153.
“The comma is a manifestation of a massive area of disagreement still among the parties,” Havercamp of the Environmental Defense Fund said.
All the interesting punctuation debates I have are internal, as I debate whether or not a comma is necessary in a given spot, or whether two clauses are sufficiently related to be separated by a mere semi-colon.