A brief interval.
A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.
A period of 40 days, particularly
A 40-day period formerly imposed by the French king upon warring nobles during which they were forbidden from exacting revenge or continuing to fight.
An isolation of one program, drive, computer, etc. from the rest of a computer network to limit the damage from a bug, computer virus, etc..
A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.
The 40-day period during which a widow is entitled to remain in her deceased husband's home while any dower is collected and returned.
The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.
A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
The 40-day period of isolation required after 1448 at Venice's lazaret to avoid renewed outbreaks of the bubonic plague and identical policies in other locations.
A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.
Synonym of restrict.
Synonym of isolate more generally.