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Define the word Comma

"Comma" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

Comma \Com"ma\, n. [L. comma part of a sentence, comma, Gr. ?
   clause, fr. ? to cut off. Cf. Capon.]
   1. A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of
      a sentence, written or printed.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Mus.) A small interval (the difference between a major
      and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.
      [1913 Webster]

   Comma bacillus (Physiol.), a variety of bacillus shaped
      like a comma, found in the intestines of patients
      suffering from cholera. It is considered by some as having
      a special relation to the disease; -- called also cholera bacillus.

   Comma butterfly (Zool.), an American butterfly (Grapta comma), having a white comma-shaped marking on the under
      side of the wings.
      [1913 Webster]

"comma" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

comma
     n 1: a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of
          elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
     2: anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the
        underside of each hind wing [syn: comma butterfly, Polygonia comma]

"comma" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "comma":
   ampersand, angle brackets, apostrophe, boundary, braces, caesura,
   colon, dash, decimal point, diagonal, dot, ellipsis,
   exclamation mark, full stop, hyphen, interval, juncture, lull,
   parens, parentheses, pause, period, point, question mark,
   quotation marks, quotes, semicolon, single quotes, solidus, stop,
   virgule

"comma" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"

Comma
     
        COMputable MAthematics.
     
        An ESPRIT project at KU Nijmegen.
     
        (1994-11-30)

"comma" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"

comma
     
         "," ASCII character 44.  Common names: ITU-T:
        comma.  Rare: ITU-T: cedilla; INTERCAL: tail.
     
        In the C programming language, "," is an operator which
        evaluates its first argument (which presumably has
        side-effects) and then returns the value of its second
        argument.  This is useful in "for" statements and macros.
     
        (1995-03-10)