Dot

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 separator (decimal point) in numerals ( . )
• Interpunct, between words, also called middle dot, centered dot, and Georgian comma ( · )
  • dot operator, used as notation for multiplication ( ⋅ )
  • word separator middle dot, used in Avestan, Samaritan ( ⸱ )
  • Katakana middle dot ( ・ )
• 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 is used to denote time derivation, in Newtonian notation
  • There are also double, triple, quadruple and even quintuple diacritic dots
• Dotted note, in music notation (  𝅭 )

Entertainment

• Dot (song), a single by the Los Angeles pop punk band ALL
• Dot (MADtv character), a fictional character on the television show MADtv
• Dot, A Drama in Three Acts, an 1859 stage adaption of the book The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
• Dot and Dash, an animated girl and animated boy appearing as the PBS idents
• Dot and the Kangaroo, a children's book by Ethel C. Pedley, written in 1899
• Dot Branning, fictional character on the television show EastEnders
• Dot Dot Dot (magazine), a magazine publication
• Dot Matrix (ReBoot), fictional character on the television series ReBoot
• Dot Moore (1914–2007), television personality in Mobile, Alabama
• Little Dot, a comic book character
• Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, characters from the animated television show Animaniacs

Companies and agencies

• Department for Transport, in the UK, formerly the Department of Transport (DoT)
• 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

Technology

• Dot, 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

• Dot, a diminutive form of the given name Dorothy
• Dot (mango), a mango cultivar from Florida
• 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
• Dictionary of Occupational Titles
• Newton's notation for differentiation, in mathematics and physics
• Tropical Storm Dot (disambiguation), several tropical storms

See also

• Dots (disambiguation)
• Dot notation (disambiguation)