virgula
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
virgula (plural virgulas)
- (zoology) A small, thin, straight growth, particularly:
- (obsolete) The spines of a ray.
- (obsolete) The sicula of a graptolite.
- (obsolete) A divining or dowsing rod.
- (rare) Any small rod.
- (typography, rare) Synonym of virgule#English|virgule: a punctuation mark.
- 1728, Ephraim Chambers, "Point" in Cyclopædia:
- A Point with a Virgula, call'd a Semicolon.
- 1934, Robert C. Priebsch & al., The German Language, volume II, chapter x, page 380:
- The full stop or, instead, a virgula, i.e. a short slanting strike (/) is used... to mark the end of a sentence or of a portion of a sentence followed by a pause.
- 1728, Ephraim Chambers, "Point" in Cyclopædia:
- (music, obsolete) Synonym of stem#English|stem: the tail of a note.
- (music, historical, obsolete) Synonym of virga#English|virga: one of the neumes of medieval musical notation.
- (small rod) See Thesaurus:stick
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