1. Something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions 
2. The marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
   - punctuation mark 
3. The use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases

Derived forms: punctuations

See also: punctuate

Type of: break, grouping, interruption, mark

Part of: orthography, writing system

Encyclopedia: Punctuation

• cooperative
• cooperatively
• cooperativeness
• cooperator
• Cooperstown
• coordinate
• coordinate axis
• coordinate bond
• coordinate clause
• coordinate geometry
• coordinate system
• coordinated
• coordinated universal time
• coordinately
• coordinating
• coordinating conjunction
• coordination
• coordination compound
• coordinative
• coordinator
• Coosa
• Coosa River
• coot
• cooter
• cootie