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 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:
  1. Dot and the Kangaroo (film) in 1977
  2. Around the World with Dot in 1981
  3. Dot and the Bunny in 1983
  4. Dot and the Koala in 1985
  5. Dot and Keeto in 1986
  6. Dot and the Whale in 1986
  7. Dot and the Smugglers in 1987
  8. Dot Goes to Hollywood in 1987
  9. Dot in Space in 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)