punctuation marks

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  1. ampersand
    a punctuation mark (&) that represents the conjunction "and"
  2. apostrophe
    a mark used to indicate the omission of one or more letters
  3. asterisk
    a star-shaped character used in printing
  4. brace
    a support that steadies or strengthens something else
  5. bracket
    either of two punctuation marks used to enclose text
  6. colon
    the part of the large intestine between the cecum and rectum
  7. comma
    a punctuation mark (,) indicating the separation of elements
  8. division
    the act of partitioning
  9. dollar sign
    a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars
  10. dot
    a very small circular shape
  11. ellipsis
    a mark indicating that words have been omitted
  12. equal sign
    a sign indicating that the quantities on either side are equal
  13. exclamation mark
    a punctuation mark (!) used to indicate emotion
  14. greater
    greater in size or importance or degree
  15. hyphen
    a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a word
  16. less
    a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree
  17. minus sign
    a sign indicating the operation of subtraction
  18. multiplication
    arithmetic operation determining the product of two numbers
  19. parenthesis
    a punctuation mark used to enclose textual material
  20. percentage point
    the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
  21. period
    an amount of time
  22. plus sign
    a sign indicating the operation of addition
  23. pound sign
    the (#) symbol
  24. question mark
    a punctuation mark (?) at the end of a sentence that is asking something
  25. quotation mark
    a punctuation mark showing that words were said or written by someone else
  26. semicolon
    a punctuation mark used to connect independent clauses
  27. slash
    cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
  28. underscore
    give extra weight to
Created on Fri Jan 27 08:40:57 EST 2012 (updated Fri Jan 27 08:46:16 EST 2012)

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