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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 is the meaning of the word dot?

   • A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark. 2. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child. 1. To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.

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   What is a dot product?

   • Algebraically, the dot product is the sum of the products of the corresponding entries of the two sequences of numbers. Geometrically, it is the product of the Euclidean magnitudes of the two vectors and the cosine of the angle between them. These definitions are equivalent when using Cartesian coordinates.

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   What does dotted mean?

   • [usually passive] to spread things or people over an area; to be spread over an area be dotted with something The countryside was dotted with small villages. be dotted around… There are lots of Italian restaurants dotted around London. dot something Small villages dot the countryside.

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   What does a dot mean in math?

   • means less than the number (but not equal to, which is why the dot is empty). means greater than or equal to the number (which is why the dot is solid). means less than or equal to the number (which is why the dot is solid). Let’s look a few examples based on these rules.

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3. www.ldoceonline.com › dictionary › dotdot | meaning of dot in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary ...

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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...

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

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   noun. /dɒt/. /dɑːt/. Idioms. a small round mark, especially one that is printed. There are dots above the letters i and j. Text and graphics are printed at 300 dots per inch. The helicopters appeared as two black dots on the horizon. The island is a small green dot on the map.

5. www.acronymfinder.com › DOTDOT - Definition by AcronymFinder

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   DOT: Digital Optical Tape: DOT: Designating Optical Tracker: DOT: Dedicated Offshore Team: DOT: Digital Oligonucleotide Tiling: DOT: Diocese of Torit: DOT: Distribution Oriented Technologies (Jordan, Amman) DOT: Date of Theft: DOT: Directory of Trades: DOT: Dose Optimized Thermotherapy: DOT: Dynamic Object Technology: DOT: Deep Ocean Technology ...

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

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6. www.collinsdictionary.com › us › dictionaryDOT definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary

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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. dictionary.cambridge.org › dotdot | definition in the Cambridge Essential English Dictionary

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   dot meaning: 1. a small, round mark or spot: 2. the spoken form of ‘.’ in an Internet address: 3. at that…. Learn more.

8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Dot_productDot product - Wikipedia

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   In mathematics, the dot product or scalar product 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.

9. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › english › dot_2dot verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage ...

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   to put very small amounts of something in a number of places on a surface. dot A on/over B Dot the cream all over your face. dot B with A Dot your face with the cream. Word Origin. Idioms. dot your i’s and cross your t’s. to pay attention to the small details when you are finishing a task.