Definition of "dot" in English

noun

1. A small, round spot.

   • a dot of colour

2. (grammar) 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. (mathematics) 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. (obsolete) A lump or clot.

8. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.

   • a dot of a child

9. (cricket, informal) A dot ball.

10. (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun

11. (MLE) Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).

12. (MLE, slang, rare) confinement facility

verb

1. (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).

   • His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.

2. (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.

   • Dot your is and cross your ts.

3. To mark by means of dots or small spots.

   • to dot a line

4. To mark or diversify with small detached objects.

   • to dot a landscape with cottages

5. (colloquial) To punch (a person).

preposition

1. Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.

   • The work is equal to F dot Δx.

noun

1. (US, Louisiana) A dowry.