English noun: punctuation mark |
1. | punctuation mark (communication) the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases |
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| Synonyms | punctuation |
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| Broader (hypernym) | mark |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | ampersand, angle bracket, apostrophe, brace, bracket, bracket, colon, comma, dash, diagonal, exclamation mark, exclamation point, full point, full stop, hyphen, interrogation point, inverted comma, parenthesis, period, point, question mark, quotation mark, quote, semicolon, separatrix, slash, solidus, square bracket, stop, stroke, swung dash, virgule |
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| Part meronym | orthography, writing system |
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