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Two vertically-aligned dots.

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1. (mathematics) division

   Alternative form: ∶ (U+2236 RATIO)

   6 : 2 = 3

: (English name colon)

1. Introduces a quotation.

   Mary gave advice to her children: a stitch in time saves nine.

   Patient: Is there a doctor in here?

2. Introduces a sentence with the role of apposition with respect to the previous one.

   Luruns could not speak: he was drunk.

3. Introduces the logical consequence, or effect, of a fact stated before.

   There was only one possible explanation: the train had never arrived

4. Separation of clauses in a periodic sentence.
5. Separates hours, minutes, and seconds when reporting time.

   Synonym: .

   The train leaves at 5:40.

6. Separates numbers in a ratio.

   Alternative form: ∶ (U+2236 RATIO)

   There is a 5:4 ratio of boys to girls in my class.

7. Separation of a title and the corresponding subtitle.

   Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

8. (information science) Separate elements of a bibliographic reference, such as chapter and verses of the bible, or volumes and pages of a work.

   John 3:14–16 (or John III:14–16)

9. Used after a letter as a nonstandard representation of an umlaut or diaeresis, when technical limitations prevent the use of one.
   • 1990 January 26, porpentine [username], “Re: Mommy! Gene hit me first!”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal‎ (Usenet; in English):

     I agree, most of the people who are listening to Whitesnake/Skid Row/Guns-n-Roses-Dude/insert_your_favorite_cheese_metal_band now will have forgotten about them in a few years. I don't think you can say the same of, say, Fates Warning, King's X, or the older metal bands (Black Sabbath version 1, Blue O:yster Cult, Moto:rhead, arguably Aerosmith).

10. (taxonomy) Separates different levels of an abbreviated taxonomy.
11. Used in : :.
12. For the IPA triangular colon symbol, which marks long vowels, see ː.
13. For the "modifier colon" symbol, used in some languages for long vowels, see ꞉.
14. For the Armenian full stop, see ։.
15. For the Hebrew and Aramaic punctuation mark which marks the end of a passage, see ׃.
16. For the six-dot Braille characters consisting of two vertically-aligned dots, see ⠃, ⠅, ⠆, ⠘, ⠨, ⠰.
17. For the eight-dot Braille extension characters consisting of two vertically-aligned dots, see ⡁, ⡂, ⡄, ⢈, ⢐, ⢠.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Unsupported titles/:.

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• (mathematics): ÷

• Colon (punctuation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Punctuation

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1. (computing) Indicates a storage or media drive letter (with or without path).

   C: is the default system drive on Windows.

2. (networking) Separates the parts of an IPv6 address.

   2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:ff00:0042:8329

3. (Internet) Represents two eyes vertically aligned, in order to form emoticons.

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1. Connects a suffix or clitic to a number, abbreviation, initialism or individual letter.

   Hinta on TKY:n jäsenille 10 €, muille 20 €.

   The price is € 10 for the members of TKY, € 20 for all others.

   SAK:kin on samaa mieltä.

   Also SAK shares that opinion.

If a numeric expression consists of a number and a headword which indicates the case, the numeral is written without the case suffix:

Ostin 10 000 [kymmenellätuhannella] eurolla Nokian osakkeita.
Ostin 10 000 €:lla Nokian osakkeita.

I bought € 10,000 worth of Nokia's shares.

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If a numeric expression consists of a number and a headword, and the numeral is in nominative singular, the headword is in partitive singular (base case), and the headword is an abbreviation, the partitive case is not indicated:

Osakkeet maksoivat 10 000 € [kymmenentuhatta euroa].

The shares cost € 10,000.

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Et ole vielä maksanut niitä 10 000:ta [kymmentätuhatta] euroa, jotka olet minulle velkaa.

You have not yet paid that € 10,000 which you owe me.

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If an abbreviation or initialism is read as a word (as opposed to letter by letter), the colon is not used:

Hinta on ERTOn jäsenille 10 €, muille 20 €.

The price is € 10 for the members of ERTO, € 20 for all others.

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1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Used to mark abbreviations.
   • c. 16th century, manuscript, quoted in “Elizabeth I: Translations, 1544–1589” (in English), Janel Mueller, Joshua Scodel, editors, 2009, →ISBN, page 460:

     This verse translation was entered in the manuscript in a secretary hand that Rugh Hughey, the editor of the Arundel Harington manuscript, tentatively assigned to the mid- or late sixteenth century; in the right margin at the end of the text, an italic hand of uncertain date has written “E.R. Ꝑ re:”. […] these letters can be expanded to “per re-----.”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1686, John Riley, portrait of Bridget Holmes (image), inscription at the bottom left corner:

     BRİDGET. HOLMES / ETA:^S SUÆ: 96 / A:D:1686:·

     BRIDGET. HOLMES / ETA[TI]S SUAE 96 / A[NNO] D[OMINI] 1686:·

   • 1756 January 28, Leopold Lamprecht, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s baptismal record (image)

     Joan̄es Chryſoſt: Wolfgangus Theophilus fil: leg: / Nob: D: Leopoldus Mozart Aulæ Musicus, et Maria An̄a Pertlin giuges.

     Joannes Chrysost[omus] Wolfgangus Theophilus fil[ius] leg[itimus] / Nob[ilis] D[ominus] Leopoldus Mozart Aulae Musicus, et Maria Anna Pertlin giuges.

   • 1817, sovereign (British coin), obverse inscription (image)

     GEORGIUS III D:G:BRITANNIAR:REX F:D:

     GEORGIUS III D[EI] G[RATIA] BRITANNIAR[UM] REX F[IDEI] D[EFENSOR]

     George III, by the Grace of God, of the Britains King, Defender of the Faith.

2. (Old Latin) Used to indicate a word boundary.
   • 7th century BC, Praeneste fibula:

     𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌉𐌏𐌔:𐌌𐌄𐌃:𐌅𐌇𐌄⁝𐌅𐌇𐌀𐌊𐌄𐌃:𐌍𐌖𐌌𐌀𐌔𐌉𐌏𐌉

     MANIOS:MED:FHE⁝FHAKED:NVMASIOI

     Manios made me for Numasios.

• (word boundary): ] [, ·, ⁝

• Gavinelli, Simona (2020) “Early Carolingian: Italy”, in The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography, →ISBN, pages 268–9

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1. Connects a suffix or clitic to a number, abbreviation or initialism.

   EU:s vinmarknad

   EU's wine market

   TV:n är trasig.

   The TV is broken.

   den 13:e mars

   March the 13th

   två VD:ar

   two CEOs

2. Marks the contraction of a word, separating the beginning and end (first and last letter, replacing the period of a standard abbreviation in front of an ending)

   c:a 50 mil (cirka)

   circa 50 miles

   Vårdsnäs k:a (kyrka)

   Vårdsnäs church

   S:t Petersburg (Sankt)

   Saint Petersburg

   Kungl. Maj:ts resolution (Majestäts)

   His Majesty's resolution (a government decree)

   Bibliografi till förf:s 60-årsdag (författarens, standard abbreviation förf.)

   Bibliography to the author's 60th anniversary