colon : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: colon	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for colon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
colon n the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos Synonym(s): colon, El Salvadoran colon the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos Synonym(s): colon, Costa Rican colon a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal Synonym(s): Colon, Aspinwall a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Condor \Con"dor\ (k[ocr]n"d[ocr]r; in defs. 2 & 3, k[osl]n"d[osl]r), n. 1. (Zo[94]l.) The California vulture. [Local, U. S.] 2. A gold coin of Chile, bearing the figure of a condor, and equal to twenty pesos. It contains 10.98356 grams of gold, and is equivalent to about $7.29. Called also {colon}. 3. A gold coin of Colombia equivalent to about $9.65. It is no longer coined.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Colon \Co"lon\, n. [L. colon, colum, limb, member, the largest of the intestines, fr. Gr. [?], and in sense of the intestine, [?]: cf. F. colon. Cf. {Colic}.] 1. (Anat.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the c[91]cum to the rectum. Note: [See Illust of {Digestion}.] 2. (Gram.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Colon, MI (village, FIPS 17360) Location: 41.95902 N, 85.32347 W Population (1990): 1224 (588 housing units) Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 49040 Colon, NC Zip code(s): 27330 Colon, NE (village, FIPS 10005) Location: 41.29776 N, 96.60645 W Population (1990): 128 (54 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68018
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
colon ":". {ASCII} character 58. Common names: {ITU-T}: colon. Rare: dots; {INTERCAL}: two-spot. (1995-09-25)