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   colon

   /ˈkəʊlən/

   noun

   • 1. a punctuation mark (:) used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation.
   • ▪ a colon used in various technical and formulaic contexts, for example a statement of proportion between two numbers, or to separate hours from minutes (and minutes from seconds) in a numerical statement of time: "10:1"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (as a term in rhetoric denoting a section of a complex sentence, or a pause before it): via Latin from Greek kōlon ‘limb, clause’.

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • C

     3

   • O

     1

   • L

     1

   • O

     1

   • N

     1

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