(typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
Used in a Sentence
commas
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for commas.
Editorial note
In ES5 and later multiple commas at the end are collapsed into one, but otherwise multiple commas are kept.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
(typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of commas gathered in one view.
(genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
(figurative) A brief interval.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for commas.
noun
(typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
noun
(genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
noun
(figurative) A brief interval.
noun
(Romanian typography) A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
Example sentences
In ES5 and later multiple commas at the end are collapsed into one, but otherwise multiple commas are kept.
Now the language is dead and users are better off migrating to Babel and just dealing with the curly braces and commas.
Not really laughable commas and periods have a different meaning in math, and well accounting in many countries.
A minor improvement was the substitution of commas with underscores, which perl allows in numbers for easier readability.
I mean ubiquitous or easily repurposed operators like assignment/declaration, lambda, pairing, or commas.
You carefully have to count the number of commas, and use an invisible nothing in between.
Btw, CSV files can contain values with commas and even newlines inside of them.
I actually have seen urls that ended with a long row of commas, now that I think of it.
It would be nice if it had an option to ignore commas.
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen on this site, though I admire the author's love, of commas.
That's not a particularly good example, since you have the same ambiguity between the use of commas to set off non-restrictive appositives and the use of commas to separate list items, it still occurs in lists where the ambiguity is between four (or more) elements with no appositive or three (or more) elements, one of which has a non-restrictive appositive attached.
\v makes a better separating character than commas or tabs since it won't appear naturally in text.
Quote examples
"But a combination of curly braces, parentheses, brackets, periods and commas is simpler and more succinct?" It's more readable.
(In actual rhetoric, the descriptors would probably be different.) But it's completely impossible for the "hiking" of "hiking boots" to be delimited by commas (in speech, emphatic pauses) that way.
"A sentence that is long can still be quite simple, if it doesn’t require the reader to remember previous parts of the sentence in order to parse the rest." It's almost as if he's using unnecessary commas to make up for the long sentence.
Proper noun examples
Commas and periods are both used for thousands and decimals sometimes interchangeably within the same country.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use commas in a sentence?
In ES5 and later multiple commas at the end are collapsed into one, but otherwise multiple commas are kept.
What does commas mean?
(typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
What part of speech is commas?
commas is commonly used as noun.