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 or below a character ( ȧ, ạ )
• Dotted note in music notation

People and fictional characters

• Dot Branning, from EastEnders
• Dot Matrix (ReBoot), from the television series ReBoot
• Dot Moore, a Mobile, Alabama television personality
• Dot and Dash, the girl and the boy appearing in the PBS Kids idents
• Dot and the Kangaroo, children's book by Ethel C. Pedley, written in 1899
• Dot Dot Dot, a Chicago-based rock band
• Dot, from the television series MADtv, played by Stephanie Weir
• Dot, a character from the animated tv series Animaniacs

Companies and agencies

• Department of Telecom (in India)
• Department of Tourism (in the Philippines)
• Department of Transport (in the UK) (now the Department for Transport (DfT))
• 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 language, the plain-text format for describing graphs used by Graphviz
• Dot product, in mathematics
• Newton's notation for differentiation, in mathematics and physics
• Dictionary of Occupational Titles (in the USA)
• Directly observed treatment, a way to administer medicine
• Dutch Open Telescope
• Damage over time, in computer and video games
• Diffuse optical tomography
• An element in Morse code
• Dot (album), a single by the Los Angeles pop punk band ALL
• Dot Dot Dot, a magazine publication
• Epiphone Dot, a series of archtop guitars

[edit] See also

• Dot matrix, a 2-dimensional array of dots used to generate characters, symbols and images