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dot

Pronunciation: /dɒt/

The English word “dot” has 11 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A small, round spot.
  2. A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
  3. A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
  4. A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
  5. In musical notation, a symbol in the form of a small point placed after a note, indicating that its duration is to be augmented by 50%.
  6. One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
  7. A lump or clot.
  8. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
  9. A dot ball.
  10. buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
  11. confinement facility

Etymology

From Middle English *dot, dotte, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *dott, from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).

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