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Comma
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(Gr. Koµµa, a thing stamped or cut off, from KOIrTEw, to strike), originally, in Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than the "colon"; hence a mark (,), in punctuation, to show the smallest break in the construction of a sentence. The mark is also used to separate numerals, mathematical symbols and the like. Inverted commas, or "quotation-marks," i.e. pairs of commas, the first inverted, and the last upright, are placed at the beginning and end of a sentence or word quoted, or of a word used in a technical or conventional sense; single commas are similarly used for quotations within quotations. The word is also applied to comma-shaped objects, such as the "comma-bacillus," the causal agent in cholera.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Comma'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/comma.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Comma'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/comma.html. 1910.
