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[ noun ] the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases

Synonyms

punctuation

Used in print

(Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)

On Earth elections continued and a very advanced poet published a limited_edition of verse consisting entirely of punctuation_marks and spaces ; Time_magazine reviewed it and suggested that the Federation_Assembly_Daily_Record should be translated into the medium .

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