• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (xiǎoshùdiǎn)

• Dutch: punt
• Finnish: piste
• French: point
• German: Punkt
• Greek: υποδιαστολή(el) (ipothiastolí)
• Italian: punto
• Korean: 소수점(小數點, sosujeom)
• Kurdish: niqte, xal
• Latvian: punkts
• Polish: przecinek (as decimal comma), kropka (as decimal period)
• Portuguese: ponto
• Russian: точка (tóčka)
• Spanish: punto
• Swedish: punkt

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (diǎn)

• Chinese Characters: (diǎn)
• Dutch: punt
• Finnish: piste
• French: point
• German: Punkt
• Italian: punto
• Korean: 점(點, jeom)
• Kurdish: niqte, xal
• Latvian: punkts
• Polish: kropka
• Portuguese: ponto
• Russian: точка (tóčka)
• Spanish: punto
• Swedish: punkt

• ttbc Estonian: punkt

Verb

1. To cover with small spots (of some liquid).

   His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.

2. To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.

   Dot your is and cross your ts.

Derived terms

• dot do dot
• dot the i's and cross the t's

French

Etymology

Latin dos

Noun

dot, feminine

1. dowry, marriage portion

Derived terms

• coureur de dot

  Fortune-hunter

Kurdish

Noun

dot

1. daughter

Related terms

• dotmam
• keç
• pis

Latvian

Verb

dot

1. give

Malay

Noun

dot

1. nipple, teat

Dot may mean:

• Full stop, also called period ( . )
• Interpunct, between words; also called middle dot or centered dot ( · )
• Decimal point, in numerals ( . )
• Dot (diacritic), above or below a character ( , ạ )
• Dotted note in music notation
• Dot Branning, from EastEnders
• Dot Matrix (ReBoot), from the television series ReBoot
• Dot Moore, a Mobile, Alabama television personality
• Dot and Dash, the girl and the boy appearing in the PBS Kids idents
• Dot and the Kangaroo, children's book by Ethel C. Pedley, written in 1899
• Dot Dot Dot, a Chicago-based rock band
• Dot, from the television series MADtv, played by Stephanie Weir
• Dot, a character from the animated tv series Animaniacs
• Department of Telecom (in India)
• Department of Tourism (in the Philippines)
• Department of Transport (in the UK) (now the Department for Transport (DfT))
• Department of Transportation (in the USA and various U.S. states)
• Dot Cycle and Motor Manufacturing Company British motorcycle manufacturing company
• Dot Records a USA company
• DOT language, the plain-text format for describing graphs used by Graphviz
• Dot product, in mathematics
• Newton's notation for differentiation, in mathematics and physics
• Dictionary of Occupational Titles (in the USA)
• Directly observed treatment, a way to administer medicine
• Dutch Open Telescope
• Damage over time, in computer and video games
• Diffuse optical tomography
• An element in Morse code
• Dot (album), a single by the Los Angeles pop punk band ALL
• Dot Dot Dot, a magazine publication
• Epiphone Dot, a series of archtop guitars

See also

• Dot matrix, a 2-dimensional array of dots used to generate characters, symbols and images

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