dot
/dɑt/ noun B1- 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.
- 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.
- 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%.
- One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
- Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen. · a dot of a child
- A dot ball.
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From the library
The next day a person with red hands and a blue polka-dot necktie, who called himself Kelly, called at Anthony Rockwall’s house, and was at once received in the library.
The absence of the i-dots in the old man’s writing is also most characteristic.
It was several miles off, but I could distinctly see a small dark dot against the dull green and grey.
“Day for day, hour for hour,” said Albert; “that will suit me to a dot.”
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