the sign (,), a mark of punctuation used for indicating a division in a sentence, as in setting off a word, phrase, or clause, esp. when such a division is accompanied by a slight pause or is to be noted in order to give order to the sequential elements of the sentence. It is also used to separate items in a list, to mark off thousands in numerals, to separate types or levels of information in bibliographic and other data, and, in Europe, as a decimal point.

Classical Prosody .

a fragment or smaller section of a colon.

the part of dactylic hexameter beginning or ending with the caesura.

the caesura itself.

Music . the minute, virtually unheard difference in pitch between two enharmonic tones, as G? and A?.

any of several nymphalid butterflies, as Polygonia comma, having a comma-shaped silver mark on the underside of each hind wing.

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interval , mark , pause , punctuation