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comma: see punctuation punctuation [Lat.,=point], the use of special signs in writing to clarify how words are used; the term also refers to the signs themselves. In every language, besides the sounds of the words that are strung together there are other features, such as tone, accent, and
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In programming, the comma (,) is used to separate values in a function call. For example, in the C statement printf ("The result is %s\n", amount); the comma separates the display string from the name of the variable.

comma

Music a minute interval

comma [′käm·ə]

(acoustics)

The difference between the larger and smaller whole tones in the just scale, corresponding to a frequency ratio of 81/80.

1.	(project)	Comma - COMputable MAthematics. An ESPRIT project at KU Nijmegen.
2.	(character)	comma - "," ASCII character 44. Common names: ITU-T: comma. Rare: ITU-T: cedilla; INTERCAL: tail. In the C programming language, "," is an operator which evaluates its first argument (which presumably has side-effects) and then returns the value of its second argument. This is useful in "for" statements and macros.

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No references found	You see I left off at a comma, and it's so awkward not knowing how the sentence finishes Sylvie and Bruno by Carroll, Lewis View in context He set down her basket and the tin pot, and stirring the paint with the brush that was in it began painting large square letters on the middle board of the three composing the stile, placing a comma after each word, as if to give pause while that word was driven well home to the reader's heart-- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context Nearer and nearer waltzed Gagool, looking for all the world like an animated crooked stick or comma, her horrid eyes gleaming and glowing with a most unholy lustre. King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context	comic-strip oriented image Comics Comilla Comines, Philippe de Cominform coming Coming Race, The COMINT Comintern COMIS Comisco Comiskey, Charlie COMIT COMIT II Comitative Aspect Comite Europeen des Postes et Telecommunications Comite Revolutionnaire Comité Révolutionnaire Comitia Comitia Centuriata comity Comity of Nations Comleyan comm mode comm port comma comma delimited comma separated values Commack Commagene Commager, Henry Steele Command command and control Command and Observation Post command button command code command control Command Control Processor command control program command destruct command economy command guidance command interpreter Command key command language command level command line command line interface command line interpreter command line option command line processor	COMLOG COMLOGGRU COMLOGNET COMLOGSITREP COMLOGWESTPAC COMLRM Comm Comm Comm Comm Carrier Comm Ev comm mode comm port Comm Power Xml Portal Comm program Comm South Companies, Inc. COMM SQ COMM TECH Comm-B Data Registers COMM-EQUIPSTAT comm. Comm. ACM COMM/ADP COMM/ID COMM/IF Comm/Nav Outage Forecast System comma Comma (butterfly) comma bacillus comma bacillus comma butterflies comma butterflies comma butterfly comma butterfly Comma Cell Comma cloud Comma delimited Comma delimited Comma Delimited Format Comma Delimited Value Comma derivative comma fault Comma Separated File Comma Separated List Comma separated lists Comma separated lists Comma separated lists Comma separated lists Comma Separated Table Comma Separated Value Comma Separated Value Data Exchange Comma separated values Comma Separated Variable comma splice comma splice Comma-Free, Sync-Timing Comma-separated values

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You see I left off at a comma, and it's so awkward not knowing how the sentence finishes

Sylvie and Bruno by Carroll, Lewis View in context

He set down her basket and the tin pot, and stirring the paint with the brush that was in it began painting large square letters on the middle board of the three composing the stile, placing a comma after each word, as if to give pause while that word was driven well home to the reader's heart--

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

Nearer and nearer waltzed Gagool, looking for all the world like an animated crooked stick or comma, her horrid eyes gleaming and glowing with a most unholy lustre.

King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context

comma playV2('en/US/dk/dkdgskslskddhr');playV2('en/UK/dk/dkdgskslskddhr')

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