0 a symbol used in punctuation: --
Full stops, commas, semicolons, question marks and brackets are all different types of punctuation mark.
1 a mark that you add to a text to show the divisions between different parts of it: --
Periods, commas, semicolons, question marks, apostrophes, and parentheses are all punctuation marks.
But this is unnecessary (and visually disruptive) since the pause signal is provided by the punctuation mark itself.
It is simply a mark that is written, and is therefore a punctuation mark, not a letter.
If a quoting sentence introduces the quotation, it is preceded by a colon; the ending punctuation mark should be inserted as in the original.
This is the origin of the modern comma punctuation mark, and its name.
Each word in the runic text is separated by a two dot word divider punctuation mark.
The semicolon occurs as a punctuation mark for better and clear organization of excessive and complicated complex sentences.
The runemaster used a punctuation mark consisting of two dots (":") to separate each word of the text.
An interjection is sometimes expressed as a single word or non-sentence phrase, followed by a punctuation mark.
