Dot
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A dot is usually a small, round spot.
Dot, DoT or DOT may also refer to:
Orthography
[edit]- 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
[edit]- "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
[edit]- 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, 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Dot, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated community
- Dot, Michigan, ghost town
- Lake Dot, Orlando, Florida, United States
- Dot Cliff, Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Dot Peak, Oates Land, Antarctica
- Dot Island (disambiguation)
- Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
People, fictional characters, and mascots
[edit]- 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, one of the mascots of PBS Kids since 1999
Other uses
[edit]- Tropical Storm Dot (disambiguation), several tropical storms
- Deed of trust (disambiguation), several meanings
- Dictionary of Occupational Titles
- Dot (mango), a cultivar from Florida
- Epiphone Dot, a series of archtop guitars