Colon commonly refers to:
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Colon (punctuation)
The colon is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, or a quoted sentence. It is also used between hours and minutes in time, between certain elements in medical ...
(:), a punctuation mark
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Colon (anatomy), a major part of the large intestine, the final section of the digestive system
Colon may also refer to:
Places
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Colon, Michigan, US
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Colon, Nebraska
Colon is a village in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 110 at the 2010 census. Amenities include a post office and bank branch. Colon is seven miles north of the county seat Wahoo.
History
First established in 1879, C ...
, US
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Kowloon
Kowloon () is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006, it is the most populous area in Hong Kong, compared with Hong Kong Island and t ...
, Hong Kong, spelled "Colon" in older books
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Colón, Panama
Colón () is a city and seaport in Panama, beside the Caribbean Sea, lying near the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal. It is the capital of Panama's Colón Province and has traditionally been known as Panama's second city. Originally it was l ...
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Colón Province, Panama
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Colón, Putumayo
Colón is a town and municipality located in the Putumayo Department, Republic of Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Car ...
in Colombia
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Colón, Cuba in Cuba
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Colón, Venezuela in Venezuela
People and fictional characters
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Colon (singer)
is a Japanese singer and live streamer. He is a member of the J-pop group Strawberry Prince.
Biography
Colon was recruited by Nanamori to join Strawberry Prince in mid-2016. On January 27, 2021, he released his first solo album, ''Aster'' ( ...
, Japanese singer
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Colón (surname)
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Evelyn Colon, formerly unidentified American victim
* Colons, another term for ''
Pieds-Noirs
The ''Pieds-Noirs'' (; ; ''Pied-Noir''), are the people of French and other European descent who were born in Algeria during the period of French rule from 1830 to 1962; the vast majority of whom departed for mainland France as soon as Alger ...
'' (European settlers in French Algeria)
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Fred Colon, a fictional character in the ''Discworld'' universe
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Willie Colon (American football) (born 1983), American football player
Other uses
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Colon (letter), a colon-like character used as an alphabetic letter
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Colon (rhetoric), a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete
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Colon (CONFIG.SYS directive), usage of :label in DR DOS configuration files
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''Colon'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Leiodidae
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Colon (grape), a French wine grape
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Colon classification, a library classification system
See also
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Colón (disambiguation)
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Cologne (disambiguation)
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Colonus (person) (in Ancient Rome)
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Columbus (disambiguation)
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Column (disambiguation)
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Isocolon
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Kolon (disambiguation)
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Koron (disambiguation)
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The Colóns (disambiguation)
{{Disambiguation, geo, surname
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