Meaning of virgula | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small, thin, straight growth
   obsolete
2. The spines of a ray.
   obsolete
3. The sicula of a graptolite.
   obsolete
4. A divining or dowsing rod.
   obsolete
5. Any small rod.
   rare
6. Synonym of virgule: a punctuation mark.
   rare
7. Synonym of stem: the tail of a note.
   obsolete
8. Synonym of virga: one of the neumes of medieval musical notation.
   historical, obsolete

Examples

“A Point with a Virgula, call'd a Semicolon.”

“The full stop or, instead, a virgula, i.e. a short slanting strike (/) is used... to mark the end of a sentence or of a portion of a sentence followed by a pause.”

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