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Noun
/ˈkämə/,
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commas, plural;
  1. 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

  2. A minute interval or difference of pitch

  3. A butterfly that has wings with irregular, ragged edges and typically a white or silver comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing

  1. (comma) a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
  2. (comma) anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  3. The comma (,) is a punctuation mark. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline of the text. ...
  4. (Comma (butterfly)) The Comma (Polygonia c-album) is a species of butterfly, common in the United Kingdom and with a distribution across Europe and temperate Asia to Japan and south to Morocco. Similar species are found in the United States and Canada. ...
  5. (Comma (music)) In music theory, a comma is a minute interval, the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways . ...
  6. (Comma (rhetoric)) In Ancient Greek rhetoric a comma (κόμμα) is a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. It is shaped as a small swipe at the bottom of the line.
  7. (comma) Punctuation mark , (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list); A diacritical mark used below certain letters in Romanian; A European and North American butterfly, Polygonia c-album, of the family Nymphalidae; a small or very small interval ...
  8. (Comma (pl. commata)) Commata are single phrases after which a breath is taken. A comma was considered to be less than eight syllables. (See Colon)
  9. (Comma) A heel popular in the forties and fifties, this one has a an inward curve between where it meets the shoe and where it touches the ground. ...
  10. (Comma) A small interval used in the music of Eastern Europe and Islamic world, which corresponds to one ninth of a whole tone. One (Pythagorean) comma is 24 cents while an octave is 1200 and an equal-tempered semitone is 100 cents (four commas). ...
  11. (Comma) Mark of punctuation into which people lapse after jumping sexily in front of a bullet.
  12. (Comma) a state of deep unconsciousness
  13. (comma) 1. A discrepancy in the tempering of the musical scale. See comma of Pythagoras, diesis, ditone, syntonic comma. 2. There are musical devices to denote phrases in music, just as the comma is used in writing - see cadence.
  14. (comma) A grammatical marker descended from early scribal practice. In German, and often in Eastern European languages, the comma is used as an open quote. Throughout Europe, it is also used as a decimal point, where most North Americans expect a period. ...
  15. (comma) The sign (,) used as a punctuation mark for indicating phrases or clauses in a sentence, for separating words or list items, for identifying levels of data, for distinguishing types of bibliographic information, for delineating numeric groups, and for specifying decimal points in numeric ...
  16. (comma) a punctuation mark used before a conjunction in a compound sentence, to separate items in a series, to set off introductory words or direct address= , to separate dependent and independent clauses when the dependent clause comes first in a complex sentence, after a greeting and closing ...
  17. (comma) h9 u9postigmh/, -h=j (DT.4; LSJ)
  18. (comma) n. the standard character that is called ``comma'' (,). See Figure 2-5.
  19. a comma has a special meaning in Pd, therefore its also an atom
  20. a comma indicated 1/4 eDuppu or one aksharakaala. Thus if srgm becomes s,rg then sa is extended from one to two counts
  21. are often used to mark off connecting adverbs or adverbial phrases or clauses: