Definition of punctuation mark Punctuation mark
punc•tu•a•tion mark
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What does punctuation mark mean?
WordNet
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| punctuation mark - the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases | ||
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| mark the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember; "it was in London that he made his mark"; "he left an indelible mark on the American theater" | ||
| orthography, writing system a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols | ||
| ampersand a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and) | ||
| apostrophe the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word | ||
| brace a structural member used to stiffen a framework | ||
| square bracket, bracket a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) | ||
| angle bracket, bracket an L-shaped metal bracket | ||
| colon the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted | ||
| comma anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing | ||
| exclamation mark, exclamation point a punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation | ||
| hyphen, dash a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text | ||
| parenthesis either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material | ||
| full point, full stop, period, stop, point a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop" | ||
| interrogation point, question mark a punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question | ||
| inverted comma, quotation mark, quote a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else | ||
| semicolon a punctuation mark (`;') used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period | ||
| separatrix, virgule, solidus, slash, diagonal, stroke a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | ||
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Wiktionary 
- punctuation mark (Noun)
Any of various symbols see the table below used in writing and printing to make the sense of what is written easier to determine.
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punctuation mark
A written sign used to mark the structure of a written text; either in between sentences or within sentences.
