Associations to the word «Comma»

COMMA, noun. Punctuation mark (,) (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list).

COMMA, noun. (by extension) A diacritical mark used below certain letters in Romanian.

COMMA, noun. A European and North American butterfly, Polygonia c-album, of the family Nymphalidae.

COMMA, noun. (music) a difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.

COMMA, noun. (genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.

COMMA, noun. 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.

COMMA BACILLUS, noun. (bacteriology) A variety of bacillus shaped like a comma, found in the intestines of patients suffering from cholera.

COMMA JOHANNEUM, proper noun. The Johannine Comma; a phrase included in some manuscripts of 1 John 5:7-8.

COMMA QUEEN, noun. A person who is obsessed with fixing grammatical errors.

COMMA QUEENS, noun. Plural of comma queen

COMMA SPLICE, noun. (grammar) Two independent clauses strung together with a comma in between.

COMMA SPLICES, noun. Plural of comma splice

COMMA, noun. A punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence.

COMMA, noun. Anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing.