WAXING GIBBOUS

The semicolon appears to be more than one-half but not fully illuminated by the reading lamp. The fraction of the semicolon's dot that is illuminated is increasing, like a visibly waxing moon. This semicolon appears before the Full Semicolon and after the First Quarter Semicolon. The amount of the semicolon that we can see will grow larger and larger every day, "like a comet to the eye of the astronomer."