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Colon has several meanings:

In anatomy of the digestive system, the colon or large intestine is the part of the intestine from the cecum to the rectum. ... A colon is a punctuation mark, with one dot above another, ie: :. Uses Colons are commonly used to introduce lists, or to connect a broad idea with a specific example: two related sentences can be separated by colons instead of periods. ... A colon (Greek ) is a rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete. ...

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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia The Colón is the currency of Costa Rica (ISO 4217: CRC) and El Salvador (ISO 4217: SVC). ...


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