Usually means: Punctuation mark indicating a pause.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. comma: Merriam-Webster
  2. comma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. comma: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. comma: Collins English Dictionary
  5. comma: Vocabulary.com
  6. Comma, comma: Wordnik
  7. comma: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. comma: Wiktionary
  9. comma: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. comma: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. comma: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. comma: Dictionary.com
  13. comma: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. comma: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Comma (butterfly), Comma (diacritic), Comma (disambiguation), Comma (music), Comma (punctuation), Comma: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Comma: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. comma: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. comma: Rhymezone
  19. comma: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. comma: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. comma: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. comma: FreeDictionary.org
  23. comma: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. comma: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. comma: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. comma: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comma: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Comma, comma: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. comma: CCI Computer
  3. comma: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. -comma: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. COMMA: Acronym Finder
  4. comma: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Comma: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comma: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Comma: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
noun:  (Romanian typography) A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
noun:  (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
noun:  (music) A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
noun:  (genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
noun:  (rhetoric) In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
noun:  (figurative) A brief interval.
verb:  (rare, transitive) To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.

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