Dot

A dot is usually a small, round spot.

Dot, DoT or DOT may also refer to:

Orthography

 * Full stop or "period", a sentence terminator
 * Dot (diacritic), a mark above or below a character (e.g. ȧ, ạ, İ, Ċ, ċ, etc.), usually to indicate sound mutation
 * Interpunct (·) also known as an "interpoint", "middle dot", "middot", "centered dot" or "centred dot", a punctuation mark

Mathematics

 * "Dot as decimal point", the form of decimal separator generally used in anglophone countries, e.g., $24.99
 * Dot operator, a notation used to signify multiplication
 * Dot product, algebraic operation returning a single number from two equal-length sequences

Arts and entertainment

 * The Dot (Toyism), a work of art in Emmen, the Netherlands
 * "Dot" (song), a single by the Los Angeles pop punk band ALL
 * "Dot", a song by Destiny's Child featured on the Charlie's Angels soundtrack
 * Dot, A Drama in Three Acts, an 1859 stage adaption of the book The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
 * The Dot (book), a 2003 children's picture book
 * The Dot (computer), a portable computer
 * Dot., a 2013 children's book adapted into a 2016 TV series
 * Dot (film), a 2010 British animated short film
 * [Dot, British radio series written by Ed Harris, first released in 2015
 * The Dot (restaurant), a fictional café in Degrassi: The Next Generation
 * WTTK, A local television station broadcasting as "The Dot"

Government agencies

 * Department of Telecommunications, India
 * Department of Tourism (Philippines)
 * Department for Transport, UK, formerly the Department of Transport (DoT)
 * In Australia:
 * Department of Transport (1930–1932)
 * Department of Transport (1941–1950)
 * Department of Transport (1972–1982)
 * Department of Transport (1983–1987)
 * Department of Transport (1993–1996)
 * Department of Transport (Victoria, 2008–13)
 * Department of Transport (Victoria) (current)
 * Department of Transport (Western Australia)
 * Department of Transport (South Africa)
 * Department of Transportation (New Brunswick), Canada
 * Department of Transportation, US
 * Departure Order Tracking, term used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada
 * Taxation Administration, Taiwan

Companies

 * Dot Cycle and Motor Manufacturing Company, a British motorcycle manufacturing company established in 1903
 * Dot Foods, the largest foodservice redistribution company in the United States
 * Dot Records, an American company

Technology

 * Dot (dit), an element in Morse code
 * Dot (Unix)
 * DOT (graph description language), in computation, the plain-text format for describing graphs used by Graphviz software
 * ".", the DNS root zone, the root domain of the Domain Name System
 * DoT, DNS over TLS
 * DOT code, an alphanumeric character sequence for purposes of tire identification
 * Damage over time, in computer and video games
 * Designated Order Turnaround or SuperDot, an electronic system used by NYSE to route market orders
 * Diffuse optical imaging, also known as diffuse optical tomography, a medical imaging technique
 * Directly observed treatment, a way to administer medicine
 * Dissolved oxygen tension (DOT)
 * Dutch Open Telescope
 * The Dot, an Office Assistant, one of several interactive animated characters in Microsoft Office
 * Amazon Echo Dot, also called the Dot, part of a brand of smart speakers developed by Amazon

Places

 * Dot, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated community
 * Dot, Michigan, ghost town
 * Lake Dot, Orlando, Florida, United States
 * Dot Cliff, Victoria Land, Antarctica
 * Dot Peak, Oates Land, Antarctica
 * Dot Island (disambiguation)
 * Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

People, fictional characters, and mascots

 * Dot (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
 * Pedro Dot (1885–1976), Spanish rose breeder
 * Admiral Dot, stage name of Leopold S. Kahn (1859 or 1863–1918), a dwarf performer for P. T. Barnum
 * Dot, one of the mascots of PBS Kids since 1999

Other uses

 * Tropical Storm Dot (disambiguation), several tropical storms
 * Deed of trust (disambiguation), several meanings
 * Dictionary of Occupational Titles
 * Dot (mango), a cultivar from Florida
 * Epiphone Dot, a series of archtop guitars