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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Comma \Com"ma\, noun [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) 2.0 [wn]:
comma
noun
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "comma": ampersand, angle brackets, apostrophe, boundary, braces, caesura, colon, dash, decimal point, diagonal, dot, ellipsis, exclamation mark, full stop, hyphen, interval, juncture, lull, parens, parentheses, pause, period, point, question mark, quotation marks, quotes, semicolon, single quotes, solidus, stop, virgule
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Comma COMputable MAthematics. An {ESPRIT} project at KU {Nijmegen}. (1994-11-30)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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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