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Encyclopedia Britannica



COLON

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 714 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COLON . (I) (Gr. KoXov, miswritten and mispronounced as ,c Xov, the
term
  being taken from Ko)tos, curtailed), in anatomy, that
part
  of the greater
intestine
  which extends from the caecum to the rectum (see ALIMENTARY CANAL). (a) (Gr. Kw)wv, a member or
part
 ), originally in
Greek
 
rhetoric
  a short clauselonger than the "
comma
 ," hence a mark (:), in punctuation, used to show a break in construction greater than that marked by the semicolon (;), and less than that marked by the period or full stop. The sign is also used in psalters and the like to mark off periods for chanting. The word is applied in
palaeography
  to a unit of measure in MSS., amounting in length to a
hexameter
  line.


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