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Punctuation [Finnish]

Forms: : [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|fi|punctuation mark}} :
  1. Connects a suffix or clitic to a number, abbreviation, initialism or individual letter. Categories (topical): Finnish punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-:-fi-punct-LjBe3RrF Categories (other): Finnish entries with incorrect language header

Punctuation [Latin]

Forms: : [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|la|punctuation mark}} :
  1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Used to mark abbreviations. Tags: Medieval-Latin, New-Latin Categories (topical): Latin punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-:-la-punct-fI-RvJLi Disambiguation of Latin punctuation marks: 74 26 Categories (other): Medieval Latin, New Latin, Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 78 22
  2. (Old Latin) Used to indicate a word boundary. Tags: Old-Latin Synonyms (word boundary): ] [, ·,
    Sense id: en-:-la-punct-JqJyzeeD Disambiguation of 'word boundary': 1 99

Punctuation [Swedish]

Forms: : [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|sv|punctuation mark}} :
  1. Connects a suffix or clitic to a number, abbreviation or initialism.
    Sense id: en-:-sv-punct-81GcExoB Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 51 49
  2. Marks the contraction of a word, separating the beginning and end (first and last letter, replacing the period of a standard abbreviation in front of an ending) Categories (topical): Swedish punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-:-sv-punct-t7a5asSf Disambiguation of Swedish punctuation marks: 31 69 Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 51 49

Punctuation [Translingual]

Forms: : [canonical], colon [English, name]
Head templates: {{head|mul|punctuation mark|English name|colon|or||or||or||cat2=|f1lang=en|f1nolink=|f2lang=en|f2nolink=|f3lang=en|f3nolink=|f4lang=en|f4nolink=|head=|head2=|sc=|sort=}} : (English name colon), {{mul-punctuation mark|name=colon}} : (English name colon)
  1. Introduces a quotation. Tags: error-lua-exec
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-u9CT~332
  2. Introduces a sentence with the role of apposition with respect to the previous one. Tags: error-lua-exec
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-fx-Egx1X
  3. Introduces the logical consequence, or effect, of a fact stated before. Tags: error-lua-exec
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-3zD~NzBt
  4. Separation of clauses in a periodic sentence. Tags: error-lua-exec
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-Ipmv2crq Categories (other): Translingual entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Translingual entries with incorrect language header: 3 6 3 10 6 0 1 4 2 2 0 8 8 2 6 6 6 2 11 6 5
  5. Separates hours, minutes, and seconds when reporting time. Tags: error-lua-exec Synonyms: .
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-mul:time
  6. Separates numbers in a ratio. Tags: error-lua-exec
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-rcMCw3mk
  7. Separation of a title and the corresponding subtitle. Tags: error-lua-exec
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-z7m5wG~1
  8. (information science) Separate elements of a bibliographic reference, such as chapter and verses of the bible, or volumes and pages of a work. Tags: error-lua-exec Categories (topical): Information science
  9. Used after a letter as a nonstandard representation of an umlaut or diaeresis, when technical limitations prevent the use of one. Tags: error-lua-exec
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-MW-iy0F~
  10. (taxonomy) Separates different levels of an abbreviated taxonomy. Tags: error-lua-exec Categories (topical): Taxonomy
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-8GmZRapb Topics: biology, natural-sciences, taxonomy
  11. Used in : :. Tags: error-lua-exec
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-U~4957aU
  12. For the IPA triangular colon symbol, which marks long vowels, see ː. Tags: error-lua-exec
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-c2buBqu~
  13. For the "modifier colon" symbol, used in some languages for long vowels, see ꞉. Tags: error-lua-exec
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct--yuFt3cA
  14. For the Armenian full stop, see ։. Tags: error-lua-exec
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-AMnQbrP7
  15. For the Hebrew and Aramaic punctuation mark which marks the end of a passage, see ׃. Tags: error-lua-exec Categories (topical): Translingual punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-jp9~AuVN Disambiguation of Translingual punctuation marks: 2 4 2 6 3 1 2 5 6 1 0 7 5 5 18 8 8 1 7 3 4
  16. For the six-dot Braille characters consisting of two vertically-aligned dots, see ⠃, ⠅, ⠆, ⠘, ⠨, ⠰. Tags: error-lua-exec
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-Z7Jvt4iB
  17. For the eight-dot Braille extension characters consisting of two vertically-aligned dots, see ⡁, ⡂, ⡄, ⢈, ⢐, ⢠. Tags: error-lua-exec
    Sense id: en-:-mul-punct-TTInMM55
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ' [diacritic], " [diacritic], ÷ [mathematics, sciences], apostrophe (alt: '; ’), curly brackets, brace (alt: { }) [US], square bracket, bracket (alt: [ ]) [US], colon (alt: :), comma (alt: ,), dash (alt: ‒; –; —; ―), ellipsis (alt: ), exclamation mark (alt: !), fraction slash (alt: ), guillemet (alt: « »; ‹ ›), hyphen (alt: -; ‐), interpunct (alt: ·), interrobang (alt: ) [rare], bracket, parentheses (US, Canada) (alt: ( )), full stop, period (alt: .) [Canada, US], question mark (alt: ?), quotation marks (alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „) [formal], quotation marks (alt: "; ') [informal] [computing, engineering, mathematics, sciences, physical-sciences, natural-sciences], semicolon (alt: ;), slash, stroke (alt: /) [UK], space (alt: ] [)

Symbol [Translingual]

Head templates: {{head|mul|symbol|||or||or||or||cat2=|f1lang=en|f1nolink=|f2lang=en|f2nolink=|f3lang=en|f3nolink=|f4lang=en|f4nolink=|head=|head2=|head3=|head4=|sc=|sort=}}, {{mul-symbol}}
  1. (mathematics) division Tags: error-lua-exec Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-:-mul-symbol-mQsj6BRV Topics: mathematics, sciences

Symbol [Translingual]

Forms: : [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|mul|symbol}} :
  1. (computing) Indicates a storage or media drive letter (with or without path). Tags: error-lua-exec Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-:-mul-symbol-3AyPrDCp Categories (other): Translingual entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Translingual entries with incorrect language header: 3 6 3 10 6 0 1 4 2 2 0 8 8 2 6 6 6 2 11 6 5 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  2. (networking) Separates the parts of an IPv6 address. Tags: error-lua-exec Categories (topical): Networking
    Sense id: en-:-mul-symbol-CoOPqCiT Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, networking, physical-sciences, sciences
  3. (Internet) Represents two eyes vertically aligned, in order to form emoticons. Tags: Internet, error-lua-exec Categories (topical): Internet
    Sense id: en-:-mul-symbol-6~hTMl3q

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