Semicolon
A
semicolon is a
punctuation mark. It is used to join two sentences slightly more closely than they would be joined if separated by a
full stop (or
period). The semicolon is also used as a sort of "senior comma" to make meaning clear in a sentence where
commass are already being used for other purposes.
Examples:
- I am alone; my wife had to leave.
- I traveled to London, England; Tijuana, Mexico; and Reykjavik, Iceland.
- Lisa scored 2,845,770 points; Marcia, 2,312,860; and Jeff, 1,726,640.
In
computer programming, the
semicolon corresponds to
Unicode and
ASCII character 59, or
0x003B.