Dot
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Dot, DoT or DOT may refer to:
Typography
- Full stop, also called period in American English, used as a sentence terminator and as a decimal mark (decimal point) in numerals ( . )
- Interpunct (·), between words, also called middle dot or centered dot. Characters that are a middle dot include:
- dot operator, used as notation for multiplication ( ⋅ )
- word separator middle dot, used in Avestan, Samaritan ( ⸱ )
- Georgian comma
- Greek άνω τελεία, i.e. "high stop", the equivalent of the semicolon (·)
- Katakana middle dot ( ・ )
- Separator for double 'l' sound in written Catalan (l·l)
- Dot (diacritic), above or below a character (e.g. ȧ, ạ, İ, Ċ, ċ, etc.) ( ˙ ̣ ﮲ ﮳ )
- Hebrew shin and sin dots ( ׁ ׂ) as well as upper and lower dots ( ׄ ׅ )
- Syriac feminine dot ( ݀ )
- Devanagari high spacing dot ( ॱ )
- Myanmar dot below ( ့ )
- Canadian syllabics final middle dot ( ᐧ )
- Canadian syllabics final raised dot ( ᣟ )
- Vedic tone dot below ( ᳝)
- One dot leader, also used as Armenian semi-colon ( ․ )
- The dot above, used to denote time derivation, in Newtonian notation
- There are also double, triple, quadruple and even quintuple diacritic dots
- Three horizontal dots "…" or "...", an ellipsis
- The Gregg shorthand system utilizes a dot in several ways, such as to represent a or an and the letter h
Music
- Dotted note, in music notation ( 𝅭 )
- Repeat sign, composed of 2 dots
Entertainment
- "Dot" (song), a single by the Los Angeles pop punk band ALL
- "Dot", a song by Destiny's Child featured on the Charlie's Angels soundtrack
- Dot Moore (1914–2007), television personality in Mobile, Alabama
- Dot Dot Dot (magazine), a magazine publication
- Dot, A Drama in Three Acts, an 1859 stage adaption of the book The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
- Dot and the Kangaroo, a children's book by Ethel C. Pedley, written in 1899, which spawned 9 films:
- Dot and the Kangaroo (film), 1977
- Around the World with Dot, 1981
- Dot and the Bunny, 1983
- Dot and the Koala, 1985
- Dot and Keeto, 1986
- Dot and the Whale, 1986
- Dot and the Smugglers, 1987
- Dot Goes to Hollywood, 1987
- Dot in Space, 1994
Characters
- Dot, a character in the 1998 movie A Bug's Life
- Little Dot, a comic book character
- Dot and Dash, an animated girl and animated boy appearing as the PBS idents
- Dot Branning, fictional character on the television show EastEnders
- Dot Matrix (ReBoot), fictional character on the television series ReBoot
- Dot Warner a character from the animated television show Animaniacs
Companies and agencies
- Department for Transport, in the UK, formerly the Department of Transport (DoT)
- Department of Transport (Victoria), in the Australian state of Victoria
- Department of Telecommunications, India
- Department of Tourism (Philippines)
- Department of Transportation, in the United States and various U.S. states
- Dot Cycle and Motor Manufacturing Company, a British motorcycle manufacturing company
- Dot Records, an American company
- Australian Government Department of Transport (1930–1932)
- Australian Government Department of Transport (1941–1950)
- Australian Government Department of Transport (1972–1982)
- Australian Government Department of Transport (1983–1987)
- Australian Government Department of Transport (1993–1996)
Technology
- DOT n, a classification system for Brake fluid in motor vehicles
- Dot (dit), an element in Morse code
- Dot (Unix)
- DOT language, in computation, the plain-text format for describing graphs used by Graphviz software
- Dot matrix, a 2-dimensional array of dots used to generate characters, symbols and images
- Damage over time, in computer and video games
- Designated Order Turnaround or SuperDot, an electronic system used by NYSE to route market orders
- Diffuse optical tomography, an imaging technique
- Directly observed treatment, a way to administer medicine
- Dissolved oxygen tension (DOT)
- Epiphone Dot, a series of archtop guitars
- "." may refer to the DNS root zone, the root domain of the Domain Name System
- Dutch Open Telescope
Other uses
- Deed of trust (disambiguation), several meanings
- Dictionary of Occupational Titles
- Dot, a diminutive form of the given name Dorothy
- Dot (mango), a mango cultivar from Florida
- Dot, Kentucky
- The Dot, a children's picture book
- The Dot, an Office Assistant, one of several interactive animated characters available in Microsoft Office
- The Dot (restaurant), a fictional café in Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Dot product, in mathematics
- Newton's notation for differentiation, in mathematics and physics
- Polka dot, a pattern
- Taxation Administration, an agency in Taiwan
- Tropical Storm Dot (disambiguation), several tropical storms
See also
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