punctuation
noun
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Something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions.
Roget 567: grammar, accidence, syntax, praxis, punctuation; parts of speech; jussive†; syllabication; inflection, case, declension, conjugation; us et norma loquendi [Lat.]; Lindley Murray ... show more
2 punctuation
The marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases.
synonym: punctuation mark.
Dutch: interpunctieteken, leesteken
Polish: znak interpunkcyjny, znak przestankowy
3 punctuation
The use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases.
Moby thesaurus: alphabet, ampersand, angle brackets, apostrophe, braces, colon, comma, dash, decimal point, diacritical mark, diagonal, dot, ellipsis, end stop, exclamation mark, full stop, hyphen, letter, parens, parentheses ... show more.
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