Usually means: Marks aiding clarity in writing.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. punctuation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. punctuation: Merriam-Webster
  3. punctuation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. punctuation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. punctuation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. punctuation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Punctuation, punctuation: Wordnik
  8. punctuation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. punctuation: Wiktionary
  10. punctuation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. punctuation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. punctuation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Punctuation, punctuation: Dictionary.com
  14. punctuation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. punctuation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Punctuation (chess), Punctuation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Punctuation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. punctuation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. punctuation: Rhymezone
  20. punctuation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. punctuation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. punctuation: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Punctuation: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. punctuation: FreeDictionary.org
  25. punctuation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. punctuation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Punctuation: Glossary of English Grammar Terms

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Punctuation: Legal dictionary
  3. punctuation: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Punctuation: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. punctuation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. punctuation: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. punctuation: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  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).
▸ noun:  An act of punctuating.

Similar:
punctuation mark, stop, comma, punctuation space, compound symbol, interpunctuation, period, interpunction, point, ellipsis, more...

Opposite:
unpunctuated

Types:
period, comma, semicolon, colon, exclamation point, question mark, hyphen, parentheses, more...

Phrases:
punctuation marks, punctuation mark, open punctuation, punctuation symbol, General Punctuation, more...

Adjectives:
correct, proper, original, open, internal, modern, terminal, appropriate, final, incorrect, conventional

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Similar:
punctuation mark, stop, comma, punctuation space, compound symbol, interpunctuation, period, interpunction, point, ellipsis, more...

Opposite:
unpunctuated

Types:
period, comma, semicolon, colon, exclamation point, question mark, hyphen, parentheses, more...

Phrases:
punctuation marks, punctuation mark, open punctuation, punctuation symbol, General Punctuation, logical punctuation, japanese punctuation, Irony punctuation, Chinese punctuation, Zero Punctuation, more...

Adjectives:
correct, proper, original, open, internal, modern, terminal, appropriate, final, incorrect, conventional

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