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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Comma \Com"ma\, n. [L. comma part of a sentence, comma, Gr ? clause, fr ? to cut off Cf {Capon}.] 1. A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed. 2. (Mus.) A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners. {Comma bacillus} (Physiol.), a variety of bacillus shaped like a comma, found in the intestines of patients suffering from cholera. It is considered by some as having a special relation to the disease; -- called also {cholera bacillus}. {Comma butterfly} (Zo["o]l.), an American butterfly ({Grapta comma}), having a white comma-shaped marking on the under side of the wings. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: comma n 1: a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence 2: anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing [syn: {comma butterfly}, {Polygonia comma}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: Comma COMputable MAthematics. An {ESPRIT} project at KU {Nijmegen}. (1994-11-30) From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: 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-effect}s) and then returns the value of its second argument. This is useful in for" statements and {macro}s. (1995-03-10)
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