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Dot or DOT may refer to:

In typography:

• Full stop, also called period ( . )
• Interpunct, between words, or used as notation for multiplication; also called middle dot or centered dot ( · )
• Decimal point, in numerals ( . )
• Dot (diacritic), above or below a character ( ȧ, ạ )
• Dotted note, in music notation

In entertainment:

• Dot (album), a single by the Los Angeles pop punk band ALL
• Dot (MADtv character), a fictional character the television show MADtv
• Dot (Animaniacs character), a character from the animated television show Animaniacs
• Dot Branning, fictional character on the television show EastEnders
• Dot Matrix (ReBoot), fictional character on the television series ReBoot
• Dot Dot Dot (magazine), a magazine publication
• Dot Dot Dot, a Chicago-based rock band
• Dot and Dash, an animated girl and animated boy appearing in the PBS Kids station identification
• Dot and the Kangaroo, a children's book by Ethel C. Pedley, written in 1899
• Dot, A Drama in Three Acts, an 1859 stage adaption of the book The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
• Little Dot, a comic book character

Companies and agencies:

• Department of Telecommunications, India
• Department of Tourism (Philippines)
• Department of Transport (in the UK) (now the Department for Transport (DfT))
• Department of Transportation (in the United States and various U.S. states)
• Dot Cycle and Motor Manufacturing Company, a British motorcycle manufacturing company
• Dot Records, an American company

In technology:

• DOT language, in computation, the plain-text format for describing graphs used by Graphviz software
• Epiphone Dot, a series of archtop guitars
• "." may refer to the DNS root zone, the root domain of the Domain Name System
• Directly observed treatment, a way to administer medicine
• Dutch Open Telescope
• Damage over time, in computer and video games
• Diffuse optical tomography
• Dot, an element in Morse code
• Dot matrix, a 2-dimensional array of dots used to generate characters, symbols and images
• DOT, dissolved oxygen tension

Other uses:

• Dot product, in mathematics
• Dot Moore, television personality in Mobile, Alabama
• Newton's notation for differentiation, in mathematics and physics
• Dictionary of Occupational Titles (in the U.S.)
• The Dot, an Office Assistant, one of several interactive animated characters available in Microsoft Office to assist users who interface with the Office help content.
• Dot, a diminutive form of the given name Dorothy

[edit] See also

• Dots (disambiguation)

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