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. Homoglyphic characters 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

"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

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

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