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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 *

Colon (anatomy) The large intestine, also known as the large bowel, is the last part of the gastrointestinal tract and of the digestive system in tetrapods. Water is absorbed here and the remaining waste material is stored in the rectum as feces before being re ...

, a major part of the large intestine, the final section of the digestive system Colon may also refer to:

Places

Colon, Michigan Colon is a village in St. Joseph County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,173 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Colon Township. History Colon was platted in 1844. It was incorporated as a village in 1904. Ge ...

, US *

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 *

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 *

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 ...

in: **

Colón Province Colón () is a province of Panama. The capital is the city of Colón. It covers an area of 4,575.5 sq.km, and the latest estimate of population (for 2019) is 294,060.Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo, Panama. Overview This province h ...

, Panama *

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 *

Colón, Cuba Colón is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. The municipality has an area of and a population of about 71,000. The city proper, with a population of about 44,000, is the third-largest of its province. History The town wa ...

in Cuba *

Colón, Venezuela Colón is a town in the Venezuelan Andean state of Táchira. This town is the shire town of the Ayacucho Municipality and, according to the 2001 Venezuelan census, the municipality has a population of 48,982. Demographics The Ayacucho Municipal ...

in Venezuela

People and fictional characters

* Colon (singer), Japanese singer *

Colón (surname) Colón is a Spanish surname, comparable to the Italian and Portuguese Colombo, or English surname Columbus. Notable people with the surname include: * Bartolo Colón (born 1973), Dominican baseball pitcher * Carlos Colón, musician, member of The D ...

* 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) *

Fred Colon The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is the police force of the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork in the ''Discworld'' series by the English writer Terry Pratchett. The Watch, its growth and development, and its inner workings are explored through a series ...

, a fictional character in the ''Discworld'' universe *

Willie Colon (American football) Willie Colon (born April 9, 1983) is a former American football player. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He was part of the Steelers' Super Bowl XLIII victory over the Arizona Cardinals. He pla ...

(born 1983), American football player

Other uses

Colon (letter) The colon alphabetic letter is used in a number of languages and phonetic transcription systems, generally for vowel length or tone. It resembles but differs from the colon punctuation mark, . In some fonts, the two dots are placed a bit closer ...

, a colon-like character used as an alphabetic letter *

Colon (rhetoric) A colon (from Greek: , ''pl.'' , ''cola''.) is a rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete. In Latin, it is called a ''membrum'' or ''membrum orationis''. Sentences consisting of two cola are call ...

, a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete *

Colon (CONFIG.SYS directive) CONFIG.SYS is the primary configuration file for the DOS and OS/2 operating systems. It is a special ASCII text file that contains user-accessible setup or configuration directives evaluated by the operating system's DOS BIOS (typically residing ...

, usage of :label in DR DOS configuration files * ''Colon'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Leiodidae *

Colon (grape) Gros Verdot is a red French wine grape variety that was a historically important grape in the Gironde wine region of Bordeaux but plantings of the variety have been banned in the region since 1946J. Robinson, J. Harding and J. Vouillamoz ''Wine Gr ...

, a French wine grape * Colon classification, a library classification system

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