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Meaning of colon

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  colon
      n 1: the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the
           rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they
           are excreted
      2: the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
         [syn: {colon}, {El Salvadoran colon}]
      3: the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
         [syn: {colon}, {Costa Rican colon}]
      4: a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
         [syn: {Colon}, {Aspinwall}]
      5: a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series
         or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a
         business letter)

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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