Dot

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

Music

• Dotted note, in music notation (  𝅭 )
• Repeat sign, composed of 2 dots

Entertainment

• "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

Characters

• Dot, a character in the 1998 movie A Bug's Life
• Little Dot, a comic book character
• Dot and Dash, an animated girl and animated boy appearing as the PBS idents
• Dot Branning, fictional character on the television show EastEnders
• Dot Matrix (ReBoot), fictional character on the television series ReBoot
• Dot Warner a character from the animated television show Animaniacs

Companies and agencies

• Department for Transport, in the UK, formerly the Department of Transport (DoT)
• Department of Transport (Victoria), in the Victoria Australia as known as DOT
• Department of Telecommunications, India
• Department of Tourism (Philippines)
• Department of Transportation, in the United States and various U.S. states
• Dot Cycle and Motor Manufacturing Company, a British motorcycle manufacturing company
• Dot Records, an American company
• Australian Government Department of Transport (1930–1932)
• Australian Government Department of Transport (1941–1950)
• Australian Government Department of Transport (1972–1982)
• Australian Government Department of Transport (1983–1987)
• Australian Government Department of Transport (1993–1996)

Technology

• 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

Other uses

• 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

See also

• .dot (disambiguation)
• Dots (disambiguation)
• Dot notation (disambiguation)