Comma

Pronunciation

• UK enPR: kŏm'É™, IPA: /ˈkÉ’m.É™/
• US enPR: kŏm'-É™, IPA: /ˈkÉ‘m.É™/
• Rhymes: -É’mÉ™

Origin

From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα, from κόπτω (koptō, "I cut")

Full definition of comma

Noun

1. Punctuation mark (,) (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list).
2. (by extension) A diacritical mark used below certain letters in Romanian.
3. A European and North American butterfly, , of the family Nymphalidae.
4. (music) a difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
5. (genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.

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