Dot Explained
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 (playwright)|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
Companies
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
See also