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FULL POINT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Example:
in England they call a period a stop
Synonyms:
full point; full stop; period; point; stop
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("full point" is a kind of...):
punctuation; punctuation mark (the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "full point"):
suspension point ((usually plural) one of a series of points indicating that something has been omitted or that the sentence is incomplete)
