apostrophe
The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
Other meanings
A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
An arrangement of chlorophyll grains perpendicular to the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to epistrophe (an arrangement on the outer surface).
Word history
From Ancient Greek "ἀπόστροφος" (accent of elision).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “apostrophe” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.