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comma
The comma ( , ) is one of the most commonly used punctuation marks in English. Commas are the same in appearance as apostrophes ( ’ ), but are placed on the bottom line of the text, in the same location as periods.
Generally speaking, commas are used to connect two or more elements in a sentence, but the way in which they do this varies widely, depending on what these elements are and how they are arranged in the sentence.
comma
Music a minute interval
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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.
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Comma
(project)comma
(character)"," 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.
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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