A dot is usually a small, round spot. Dot, DoT or DOT may also refer to:

Orthography

Full stop The full stop ( Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative sentence (as distinguished from a question or exclamation). A ...

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 An interpunct , also known as an interpoint, middle dot, middot, centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in Classical Latin. ( Word-separating spaces did not appe ...

() also known as an "interpoint", "middle dot", "middot", "centered dot" or "centred dot", a punctuation mark

Mathematics

* "Dot as decimal point", the form of

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generally used in anglophone countries, e.g., $24.99 * Dot operator, a notation used to signify multiplication *

Dot product In mathematics, the dot product or scalar productThe term ''scalar product'' means literally "product with a Scalar (mathematics), scalar as a result". It is also used for other symmetric bilinear forms, for example in a pseudo-Euclidean space. N ...

, 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 * Ed Harris, first released in 2015 * The Dot (restaurant)">Ed_Harris_(playwright).html" ;"title="'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

* Department of Telecommunications, India * Department of Tourism (Philippines) * Department for Transport, UK, formerly the Department of Transport (DoT) * In Australia: ** Department of Transport (1930–1932) ** Department of Transport (1941–1950) ** Department of Transport (1972–1982) ** Department of Transport (1983–1987) ** Department of Transport (1993–1996) **

Department of Transport (Victoria, 2008–13) A ministry of transport or transportation is a Ministry (government department), ministry responsible for transportation within a country. It usually is administered by the ''minister for transport''. The term is also sometimes applied to the D ...

** Department of Transport (Victoria) (current) ** Department of Transport (Western Australia) * Department of Transport (South Africa) * Department of Transportation (New Brunswick), Canada *

United States Department of Transportation The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It is headed by the secretary of transportation, who reports directly to the president of the United States a ...

** Department of transportation, a general list of local and state departments of transportation in the US * Departure Order Tracking, term used by

Citizenship and Immigration Canada Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC; )Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program since 2015; the legal title is Department of Citizenship and Immigration (). is the depart ...

* Taxation Administration, Taiwan

Companies

* Dot Cycle and Motor Manufacturing Company, a British motorcycle manufacturing company established in 1903 * Dot Foods, the largest foodservice redistribution company in the United States * Dot Records, an American company

Technology

*Dot (dit), an element in

Morse code Morse code is a telecommunications method which Character encoding, encodes Written language, text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse code i ...

* Dot (Unix) * DOT (graph description language), in computation, the plain-text format for describing graphs used by Graphviz software *".", the

DNS root zone The DNS root zone is the top-level DNS zone in the hierarchical namespace of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. Before October 1, 2016, the root zone had been overseen by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ...

, 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 The Office Assistant is a discontinued intelligent user interface for Microsoft Office that assisted users by way of an interactive animated character which user interface, interfaced with the Office help content. It was included in Microsoft Off ...

, 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 * DOT (mileage system), a German-invented television mileage system

Places

Antarctica

* Dot Cliff, Victoria Land * Dot Peak, Oates Land

United States

* Dot, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Dot, Michigan, ghost town * Lake Dot, in Orlando, Florida * Dot Island (disambiguation) * Dorchester, Boston, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts

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 * Aditi Saigal or Dot (born 1998), Indian singer and actress * Dot, one of the mascots of PBS Kids since 1999

Other uses

* Tropical Storm Dot (disambiguation), several tropical storms * Davao Occidental Tigers, a Filipino basketball team * Deed of trust (disambiguation), several meanings * Dictionary of Occupational Titles * Dot (mango), a cultivar from Florida * DOT, the cryptocurrency native to Polkadot (blockchain platform) * Epiphone Dot, a series of archtop guitars