Dot

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A dot is usually a small, round spot.

Dot, DoT or DOT may also refer to:

Orthography

  • Full stop or "period", a sentence terminator
  • Dot (diacritic), a mark above or below a character (e.g. ȧ, ạ, İ, Ċ, ċ, etc.), usually to indicate sound mutation
  • Interpunct (·) also known as an "interpoint", "middle dot", "middot", "centered dot" or "centred dot", a punctuation mark

Mathematics

  • "Dot as decimal point", the form of decimal separator generally used in anglophone countries, e.g., $24.99
  • Dot operator, a notation used to signify multiplication
  • Dot product, algebraic operation returning a single number from two equal-length sequences

Arts and entertainment

  • The Dot (Toyism), a work of art in Emmen, the Netherlands
  • "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, A Drama in Three Acts, an 1859 stage adaption of the book The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
  • The Dot (book), a 2003 children's picture book
  • The Dot (computer), a portable computer
  • Dot., a 2013 children's book adapted into a 2016 TV series
  • Dot (film), a 2010 British animated short film
  • Dot (radio series), British radio series written by Ed Harris, first released in 2015
  • The Dot (restaurant), a fictional café in Degrassi: The Next Generation
  • WTTK, A local television station broadcasting as "The Dot"

Government agencies

  • Department of Telecommunications, India
  • Department of Tourism (Philippines)
  • Department for Transport, UK, formerly the Department of Transport (DoT)
  • In Australia:
    • Department of Transport (1930–1932)
    • Department of Transport (1941–1950)
    • Department of Transport (1972–1982)
    • Department of Transport (1983–1987)
    • Department of Transport (1993–1996)
    • Department of Transport (Victoria, 2008–13)
    • Department of Transport (Victoria) (current)
    • Department of Transport (Western Australia)
  • Department of Transport (South Africa)
  • Department of Transportation (New Brunswick), Canada
  • Department of Transportation, US
  • Departure Order Tracking, term used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada
  • Taxation Administration, Taiwan

Companies

  • Dot Cycle and Motor Manufacturing Company, a British motorcycle manufacturing company established in 1903
  • Dot Foods, the largest foodservice redistribution company in the United States
  • Dot Records, an American company

Technology

  • Dot (dit), an element in Morse code
  • Dot (Unix)
  • DOT (graph description language), in computation, the plain-text format for describing graphs used by Graphviz software
  • ".", the DNS root zone, the root domain of the Domain Name System
  • DoT, DNS over TLS
  • DOT code, an alphanumeric character sequence for purposes of tire identification
  • 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 imaging, also known as diffuse optical tomography, a medical imaging technique
  • Directly observed treatment, a way to administer medicine
  • Dissolved oxygen tension (DOT)
  • Dutch Open Telescope
  • The Dot, an Office Assistant, one of several interactive animated characters in Microsoft Office
  • Amazon Echo Dot, also called the Dot, part of a brand of smart speakers developed by Amazon

Places

People, fictional characters, and mascots

  • Dot (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
  • Pedro Dot (1885–1976), Spanish rose breeder
  • Admiral Dot, stage name of Leopold S. Kahn (1859 or 1863–1918), a dwarf performer for P. T. Barnum
  • Dot, the mascot of PBS Kids since 1999

Other uses

See also

  • .dot (disambiguation)
  • Dots (disambiguation)
  • Dot notation (disambiguation)
  • Dotted note, in music notation (  𝅭 )
  • Dot dot dot (disambiguation)
  • Bullet (typography) ()
  • Two dots (disambiguation)
  • Three dots (disambiguation)
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