Dot
Appearance
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A dot is usually a small, round spot.
Dot, DoT or DOT may also refer to:
Typography
- Full stop, a sentence terminator
- decimal mark or point, in numbers
- Dot (diacritic), above or below a character (e.g. ȧ, ạ, İ, Ċ, ċ, etc.)
- the dot operator U+22C5 ⋅ DOT OPERATOR
- the interpunct or middot ·
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, a 2003 children's picture book
- Dot., a 2013 children's book adapted into a 2016 TV series
- Dot (film), a 2010 British animated short film
- The Dot (restaurant), a fictional café in Degrassi: The Next Generation
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, USA
- 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
- Deep Offshore Technology
- Designating Optical Tracker, in weapon systems
- 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
Places
- Dot, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated community
- 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 and fictional characters
- Dot (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
- Pedro Dot (1885–1976), a Spanish rose breeder
- Admiral Dot (1859 or 1863–1918), born Leopold S. Kahn, a dwarf performer for P. T. Barnum
- Princess Dot, a character in the Pixar film A Bug's Life (1998)
Other uses
- Tropical Storm Dot (disambiguation), several tropical storms
- Deed of trust (disambiguation), several meanings
- Dictionary of Occupational Titles
- Dot (mango), a mango cultivar from Florida
- Epiphone Dot, a series of archtop guitars