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   Dot

   /dät/

   

   noun

   • 1. a small round mark or spot: "a symbol depicted in colored dots"
   • ▪ a dot written or printed as part of an i or j, as a diacritical mark, as one of a series of marks to signify omission, or as a period.
   • ▪ a dot used to denote the lengthening of a note or rest by half, or to indicate staccato.
   • ▪ the shorter signal of the two used in Morse code.
   • ▪ used to refer to an object that appears tiny because it is far away: "the desert shrank figures to mere dots"
   • ▪ used to indicate the punctuation separating parts of an email or website address: "OUP dot com"

   verb

   • 1. mark with a small spot or spots: "wet spots of rain began to dot his shirt" Similar spotfleckbespecklemarkdabstipplepockfrecklesprinkledustliterary:befleckbestrewbesprinkle
   • ▪ (of a number of items) be scattered over (an area): "churches dot the countryside" Similar scatterpeppersprinklestrewlitterpunctuatestudcoverspreaddisperseinterspersedistribute
   • ▪ place a dot over (a letter): "you need to dot the i"
   • ▪ mark (a note or rest) to show that the time value is increased by half: "dotting the quarter note for everyone is a common practice"

   Word Origin Old Englishdott ‘head of a boil’. The word is recorded only once in Old English, then not until the late 16th century, when it is found in the sense ‘a small lump or clot’, perhaps influenced by Dutch dot ‘a knot’. The sense ‘small mark or spot’ dates from the mid 17th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. dotter noun

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   What does a dot mean?

   • Origin dot1 Old English dott “top of a spot on the skin” dot meaning, definition, what is dot: a small round mark or spot: Learn more.

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   What does dot mean in French?

   • DOT. This French word is adopted in Louisiana. It signifies the fortune, portion, or dowry, which a woman brings to her husband by the marriage. 6 N. S. 460. See Dote; Dowry. dot - decimal point. See also dot file, dot notation.

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   What does a dot above a note mean?

   • (music) a small round mark that appears after a musical note to show that it should last for an extra half of its usual length, or above a musical note to show that it should be played staccato A dot after a note lengthens its duration by half. The dot above some notes means they are to be played staccato, the opposite of legato.

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   What does a double dot mean?

   • a point placed after a note or rest, to indicate that the duration of the note or rest is to be increased one half. A double dot further increases the duration by one half the value of the single dot b. 7. Telegraphy 8. Printing 9. See on the dot 10. See the year dot 11. 12. 13. 14. Cookery 15. 16. See dot one's i's and cross one's t's

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   51 definitions of DOT. Meaning of DOT. What does DOT stand for? DOT abbreviation. Define DOT at AcronymFinder.com.

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   DOT	Department Of Transportation
   DOT	Department of Transport
   DOT	Division of Transportation (various ...
   DOT	Department Of Telecommunications

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   From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English dot1 /dɒt $ dɑːt/ S2 noun [ countable] 1 a small round mark or spot a pattern of dots 2 → on the dot 3 something that looks like a small spot because it is so far away The plane was just a dot on the horizon. 4 a short sound or flash of light used when sending messages by Morse code → dash → th...

   Rank Abbr.	Meaning
   DOT	Department Of Transportation
   DOT	Department of Transport
   DOT	Division of Transportation (various ...
   DOT	Department Of Telecommunications

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5. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › us › definitiondot noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage ...

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   4 days ago · 1. countable noun. A dot is a very small round mark, for example, one that is used as the top part of the letter `i,' as a period, or in the names of websites . ...a system of painting using small dots of color. 2. transitive verb. When things dot a place or an area, they are scattered or spread all over it. Small coastal towns dot the landscape.

7. www.dictionary.com › e › acronymsWhat Does 'DOT' Mean? | Acronyms by Dictionary.com

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   DOT is an acronym for damage over time, and it's used in computer gaming to refer to acts that slowly cause damage to a character, such as poisoning or a spell.

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   In mathematics, the dot product or scalar product [note 1] is an algebraic operation that takes two equal-length sequences of numbers (usually coordinate vectors ), and returns a single number. In Euclidean geometry, the dot product of the Cartesian coordinates of two vectors is widely used.