comma

sustantivo

1. 1

   The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.

2. 2

   A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.

3. 3

   Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.

   Commas (Polygonia comma) and Question Marks (Polygonia interrogationis) occur from the Gulf Coast to Canada and west to the Rockies. [...] Question Marks and Commas are handsome butterflies with burnt orange and black markings. [...] On the underside of each hind wing of the Comma is a small, distinctive silver hook that resembles a comma.

   Other members of this genus that are frequently encountered in the park are the eastern comma (P. comma) and question mark (P. interrogationis).

4. 4

   A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.

5. 5

   A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.

6. 6

   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 Johannine comma.

7. 7

   figuradoA brief interval.

verbo

1. 1

   raroTo place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.

Formas

plural

commas, commata, commaes

pasado

commaed, comma'd

participio

commaed, comma'd

gerundio

commaing

3.ª persona del singular

commas