apostrophe

  1. Noun.  (context, orthography) The text character '''’''', that serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacrictical mark in certain rare contexts.
  2. Noun.  (rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.

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