Look up: comma

1. Comma
   In music a comma is a small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step). It is seldom used except by tuners.
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2. comma
   Plural form: commas. A punctuation mark used to separate items in a list, or to show the extra information in a sentence.
   Example: George, who really likes fishing, went shopping and bought a tent, a fishing rod and a new worm bucket.
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3. comma
   [n] - a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence 2. [n] - anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
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4. Comma
   Caterpillar species. Latin name: Polygonia c-album Food: Hop, nettles and currant bushes Description: Greyish, marked with orange-brown, spiny. Southern England as far north as Yorkshire and Wales.
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5. Comma
   this cuts off one clause from another. It separates items on a list.. As a pair, it acts as parenthesis, separating added information, asides, non essential extras etc. from the main sentence. The placement of a comma can alter the emphasis placed on a word or phrase.
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6. comma
   one of the special characters in a standard character set,such as ASCII or EBCDIC Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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7. Comma
   Com'ma noun [ Latin comma part of a sentence, comma, Greek ... clause, from ... to cut off. Confer Capon .] 1. A character or point [ ,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed. 2. (Mus.) A s...
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8. comma
   comma butterfly noun anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
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9. comma
   noun a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
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10. Comma
    • (n.) A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners. • (n.) A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.
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11. comma
    (from the article `punctuation`) ...complete sentences that are closely connected in sense; in a long or complicated sentence, it may precede a coordinate conjunction (such as or, ...
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12. comma
    in music, slight difference in frequency (and therefore pitch) occurring when a note of a scale, say E in the scale of C, is derived according to ... [1 related articles]
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13. Comma
    [rhetoric] In Ancient Greek rhetoric a comma (κόμμα) is a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. It is shaped as a small swipe at the bottom of the line. In antiquity comma was defined as a combination of words that has no more than eight syllables. == See also == == Bibliography == ...
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14. Comma
    (project) COMputable MAthematics. An ESPRIT project at KU Nijmegen. (1994-11-30)
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15. comma
    (character) ',' ASCII character 44. Common names: ITU-T: comma. Rare: ITU-T: cedilla; INTERCAL: tail. In the C programming language, ',' is an operator which evaluates its first argument (which presumably has side-effects) and then returns the value of its second argument. This is useful in 'for' statements and macros. (1995-03-10)
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16. Comma
    [music] In music theory, a comma is a minute interval, the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways. The word "comma" used without qualification refers to the syntonic comma, which can be defined, for instance, as the difference between an F{Music|#} tuned using the D-bas...
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17. Comma
    [disambiguation] A comma is a type of punctuation mark (,). The word comes from the Greek komma (κόμμα), which means something cut off or a short clause. Comma may also refer to: == See also == ...
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18. Comma
    The comma ( , ) is a punctuation mark. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline of the text. Some typefaces render it as a small line, slightly curved or straight but inclined from the vertica...
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19. comma
    comma: see punctuation.
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20. Comma
    In punctuation, a comma is the point [,] denoting the shortest pause in reading, and separating a sentence into divisions or members according to the construction.
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21. Comma
    The Comma (Polygonia c-album) is a European butterfly of the brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae) family.
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22. comma
    Punctuation mark (,) most commonly used to mark off a phrase or noun in apposition, to mark off a subordinate clause or phrase, or to separate items in a list
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