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punctuation

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromMedieval Latinpunctuātiō(a marking with points, a writing, agreement), frompunctuō(to mark with points, settle). Morphologically,punctuate +‎-ion.

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Noun

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punctuation (countable anduncountable,pluralpunctuations)

  1. Aset ofsymbols andmarks which are used toclarifymeaning intext byseparatingstrings ofwords intoclauses,phrases andsentences; examples include commas, hyphens, and stops (periods).
    Different languages have different rules forpunctuation.
  2. Anact ofpunctuating.

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Punctuation

Translations

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set of symbols
act

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