comma
The punctuation mark ⟨⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
Other meanings
A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
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.
Related words
- commalike
- commify
- myocomma
- Shatner comma
- comma-point
- comma lichen
- series comma
- commaless
- decimal comma
- Didymean comma
- Ptolemaic comma
- comma bacillus
Word history
From Ancient Greek "κόμμα".
Where this comes from
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