comma
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma. In the fifteenth century this punctuation was improved by the famous Aldus Manutius with the typographical art in general; when he gave a better shape to the comma, added the semicolon, and assigned to the former points more proper places.
Đồng nghĩa: scratch comma, virgule, virgula, come, comma-point
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(Romanian)(Romanian typography) A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
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(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.
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(music) A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
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(genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
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(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.
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(figuratively)(figurative) A brief interval.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(rare, transitive)To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.
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Nguồn gốc từ
From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα, from κόπτω (to cut).