Dot

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, 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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)