comma

Definitions

• (typography) The punctuation mark ⟨⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
• (Romanian) A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
• (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus , having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially and of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
• (music) A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
• (genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
• (rhetoric) In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the .
• (figurative) A brief interval.