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Added 6 October 2026

dot

/dɒt/ symbol

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ISO 639-3 language code for Dass.

noun

A small, round spot.
a dot of colour
A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
The homepage of English Wiktionary is en.wiktionary.org. [read aloud: E-N-dot-wiktionary-dot-org]
A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.

verb

To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.
To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
Dot your is and cross your ts.
To mark by means of dots or small spots.
to dot a line

preposition

Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
The work is equal to F dot Δx.

Origin

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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