punctuation
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
punctuation/pʌŋktʃuˈeɪʃn/
▶noun the marks, such as full stop, comma, and brackets, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.
■ the use of such marks.
– derivatives
punctuational adjective.
punctuational adjective.
'punctuation' also found in these Oxford entries:
apostrophe
- colon
- comma
- em rule
- en rule
- exclamation mark
- full stop
- point
- Polish notation
- punctuate
- question mark
- quotation mark
- semicolon
- unpunctuated
