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punctuation

noun
/ˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃuˈeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin punctuātiō (“a marking with points, a writing, agreement”), from punctuō (“to mark with points, settle”). Morphologically, punctuate + -ion.

  1. borrowed from punctuātiō — “a marking with points, a writing, agreement”

Definitions

  1. A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating…

    A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences; examples include commas, hyphens, and stops (periods).

    • Different languages have different rules for punctuation.

  2. An act of punctuating.

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Derived

film punctuation, interpunctuation, logical punctuation, mispunctuation, nonpunctuation, overpunctuation, punctuational, punctuationism, punctuationist, punctuationless, punctuation mark, punctuation space, repunctuation, under-punctuation, underpunctuation

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at punctuation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at punctuation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at punctuation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA