SEMICOLON


Meaning of SEMICOLON in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈse-mē-ˌkō-lən, ˈse-ˌmī-, -mi- ]

noun

Date: 1644

: a punctuation mark; used chiefly in a coordinating function between major sentence elements (as independent clauses of a compound sentence)

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