comma

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In Chapter I, a comma has been added after "Now, Mr. Alvarez".

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  1. noun Grammar A punctuation mark ( , ) used to indicate a separation of ideas or of elements within the structure of a sentence.
  2. noun A pause or separation; a caesura.
  3. noun Any of several butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having wings with brownish coloring and irregularly notched edges.

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  • Dear Science, (the comma is part of the title) is TVOTR's third full-length album, and its 11 tracks pulse with the punchy dance beats, quivering falsettos and resounding hope of a true pop album. —  Boise Weekly
  • It is recommended that you set this output encoding explicitly to utf8 unless you have specific requirements to handle other encoding types. ll (optional) - The {latitude, longitude} of the viewport center expressed as a comma-separated string (e.g. "ll = 40.479581, -117.773438"). —  AutoHotkey Community
  • (For more information see Viewport Biasing below.) spn (optional) - The "span" of the viewport expressed as a comma-separated string of —  AutoHotkey Community
  • Simply put, whether to use that final comma is a matter of style-not one of grammar, education or national honor. —  CJR
  • When creating a topic named with a comma, the new operator would flip around non-alphabetically listed word orders. —  TWiki.Codev
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  1. Latin, from Greek komma, piece cut off, short clause, from koptein, to cut.

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  1. = D. G. Danish Swedish komma = French comma = Spanish coma = Portuguese Italian comma, from Latin comma, from Greek κόμμα, a short clause of a sentence, that which is knocked off, a piece, the stamp of a die, from κόπτειν, strike, cut off.
 

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