semicolon

Definitions

General English

• noun a punctuation mark (;) used to separate two parts of a sentence and also used to show a pause

Computing

• noun a printed sign (;) which marks the end of a program line or statement in some languages such as C and Pascal

Information & Library Science

• noun a punctuation sign (;) used to join rather than separate two parts of a sentence, as in ‘The safe that had been broken into was on one side of the room; the other safe appeared to be intact.’

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Contexts for “semicolon”

3 definitions in context
• General English
• Computing
• Information & Library Science