punctuation

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noun

1. something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions
• Hypernyms:
interruption, break
2. the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
• Syn:
punctuation mark
• Derivationally related forms:
punctuate
• Hypernyms:
mark
• Hyponyms:
ampersand, apostrophe, brace, bracket, square bracket,
angle bracket, colon, comma, exclamation mark, exclamation point, hyphen,
dash, parenthesis, period, point, full stop, stop,
full point, question mark, interrogation point, quotation mark, quote, inverted comma,
semicolon, solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke,
separatrix, swung dash
• Part Holonyms:
orthography, writing system
3. the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases
• Derivationally related forms:
punctuate
• Hypernyms:
grouping
• Hyponyms:
hyphenation
• Member Holonyms:
orthography, writing system