ALL meanings of comma
com·ma
C c - countable noun comma A comma is the punctuation mark , which is used to separate parts of a sentence or items in a list. 3
- noun comma the punctuation mark(,) indicating a slight pause in the spoken sentence and used where there is a listing of items or to separate a nonrestrictive clause or phrase from a main clause 3
- noun comma a minute interval 3
- noun comma a mark of punctuation (,) used to indicate a slight separation of sentence elements, as in setting off nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements, items in a series, etc. 3
- noun comma a slight pause 3
- noun comma the sign (,), a mark of punctuation used for indicating a division in a sentence, as in setting off a word, phrase, or clause, especially when such a division is accompanied by a slight pause or is to be noted in order to give order to the sequential elements of the sentence. It is also used to separate items in a list, to mark off thousands in numerals, to separate types or levels of information in bibliographic and other data, and, in Europe, as a decimal point. 1
- noun comma Classical Prosody. a fragment or smaller section of a colon. the part of dactylic hexameter beginning or ending with the caesura. the caesura itself. 1
- noun comma Music. the minute, virtually unheard difference in pitch between two enharmonic tones, as G♯ and A♭. 1
- noun comma any of several nymphalid butterflies, as Polygonia comma, having a comma-shaped silver mark on the underside of each hind wing. 1
- noun comma punctuation mark: , 1
- noun comma A punctuation mark (, ) indicating a pause between parts of a sentence. It is also used to separate items in a list and to mark the place of thousands in a large numeral. 1
- noun Definition of comma in Technology (project) COMputable MAthematics. An ESPRIT project at KU Nijmegen. 1
- noun Technical meaning of 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. 1
- noun comma Punctuation mark (,) (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list). 0
- noun comma (by extension) A diacritical mark used below certain letters in Romanian. 0
- noun comma A European and North American butterfly, Polygonia c-album, of the family Nymphalidae. 0
- noun comma (music) a difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways. 0
- noun comma (genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence. 0
- noun comma In Ancient Greek rhetoric a comma (κόμμα) is a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity comma was defined as a combination of words that has no more than eight syllables. This term is later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma. 0