punctuation

6.14: engl/{punctuation, punctual}:

. punct-: to a point,

. punctual: occurring precisely at the expected point in time .

. punctuation:

a word condensed to a single point or character;

an extension to the alphabet that represents a word rather than a word component

as in the oriental character sets,

where there are thousands of punctuations .

. punctuation in english, however, reserves such punctual words

for expressing the non-verbal elements of speech .