Semicolon
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English
Noun
- (typography) The character ; used:
- as a punctuation mark indicating a pause longer than the comma and shorter than a period/full stop;
- in various ways in programming languages (for example, to mark the end of a statement in C++).
Variant spelling
Related terms
Translations
- Dutch: kommapunt, puntkomma
- Finnish: puolipiste
- French: point-virgule m
- German: Semicolon m
- Interlingua: puncto e virgula
- Italian: punto e virgola m
- Portuguese: ponto-e-vírgula m
- Romanian: punct şi virgulă n
- Russian: точка с запятой f
- Slovak: bodkočiarka f
- Slovene: podpičje n
- Spanish: punto y coma m
- Swedish: semikolon
Punctuation
| Symbol | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| ' | apostrophe | |
| [ and ] | bracket (US), square bracket (British) | |
| : | colon | |
| , | comma | |
| — | dash, em rule | |
| – | en rule | |
| ! | exclamation mark | |
| - | hyphen | |
| ( and ) | parenthesis, bracket (British) | |
| . | period (US), full stop (British) | |
| ? | question mark | |
| " or ' | quotation mark, quote, inverted commas (British) | |
| ; | semicolon |
