punctuation character

collocation in English

meaningsofpunctuationandcharacter

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punctuation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌpʌŋk.tʃuˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌpʌŋk.tʃuˈeɪ.ʃən/
(the use of) special symbols that you add to writing to separate phrases and sentences to show that something is a ...
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character
noun
uk
/ˈkær.ək.tər/us
/ˈker.ək.tɚ/
the particular combination of qualities in a person or place that makes them different ...
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(Definition ofpunctuationandcharacterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This meant using no more than a singlepunctuationcharacteror a pair of delimiting characters to express the few supported assertions.
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Each record type consists of a sequence of fields, which are either fixed length or delimited by apunctuationcharactersuch as a comma.
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In most languages labels take the form of an identifier, often followed by apunctuationcharacter(e.g., a colon).
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Those tokens that have disappeared are mainly punctuation characters.
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Ignoring tokens that contain only punctuation characters, it is still about 15%.
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Tokens that contain only punctuation characters.
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The unified diacritical characters and unified punctuation characters frequently have the common or inherited script property.
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No other symbols, punctuation characters, or white space are permitted.
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This coding supported only upper-case unaccented letters, digits, and a few punctuation characters.
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Special characters, including punctuation characters, are commonly used by lexers to identify tokens because of their natural use in written and programming languages.
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Six bits can only encode 64 distinct characters, so these codes generally include only the upper-case letters, the numerals, some punctuation characters, and sometimes control characters.
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