Dot

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Dot may mean:

Typographic characters

• Full stop, also called period
• Interpunct, between words; also called middle dot or centered dot
• Decimal point, in numerals
• Dot (diacritic), above a character
• Part of an ellipsis

Dot can be an abbreviation of the name Dorothy, which means "gift of god"

People and fictional characters

• A cartoon character from Animaniacs, one of Yakko, Wakko, and Dot
• Dot Branning, from EastEnders
• Dot Matrix, from the television series ReBoot
• Dot Matrix, a character from the movie Spaceballs
• Dot Moore, a Mobile, Alabama television personality
• Little Dot, a Harvey Comics character
• Dot the Ant, an animated character from Disney Pixar's A Bug's Life
• Dot and Dash, the girl and the boy appearing in the PBS Kids idents.

Companies and agencies

• Department of Transport (in the UK)
• Department of Telecom (in the India)
• Department of Transportation (in the USA and various U.S. states)
• Dot Cycle and Motor Manufacturing Company British motorcycle manufacturing company
• Dot Records a USA company

Other meanings

• DOT is a plain-text format for describing graphs used by Graphviz
• The dot product, in mathematics
• Newton's notation for differentiation, in mathematics and physics
• Dot (website)
• The root domain (known as ".") of the Domain Name System
• Dictionary of Occupational Titles (in the USA)
• Dorchester, Massachusetts
• Directly observed treatment, a way to administer medicine
• The Dutch Open Telescope
• Damage over time, in computer and video games
• The designated order turnaround system, in finance
• DOT computer language
• Diffuse optical tomography
• An element in Morse code
• A song by Destiny's Child
• "The Dot" is a nickname of the Gibson ES-335 guitar, specifically referring to models with dot inlays.
• The Epiphone Dot is a budget copy of the ES-335.

[edit] See also

• Tilaka, a dot worn on the forehead by Hindus
• Dot matrix printing