Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word DOT

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Definitions of DOT

1. A small, round spot.
2. A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
3. One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
4. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
5. To mark by means of dots or small spots.
6. To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
7. Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
8. (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
9. (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.
10. (obsolete) A lump or clot.
11. (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
12. (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
13. (MLE) Clipping of dotty ("shotgun").
14. (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
15. (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
16. (colloquial) To punch (a person).
17. (US, Louisiana) A dowry.
18. (video games) Initialism of damage over time.
19. (by extension, video games) A weapon or ability that deals damage over time as opposed to or in addition to direct damage.
20. (video games) Alternative spelling of DOT.
21. 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%.
22. (MLE, slang, rare) confinement facility
23. A female given name.
24. (US) Initialism of Department of Transportation or Department of Transport.
25. (Philippines) Initialism of Department of Tourism.
26. Initialism of w:disodium octaborate tetrahydrate.

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Examples of Using DOT in a Sentence

• A ballpoint pen, also known as a biro (British English), ball pen (Hong Kong, Indonesia, Pakistani, Indian and Philippine English), or dot pen (Nepali English and South Asian English), is a pen that dispenses ink (usually in paste form) over a metal ball at its point, i.
• In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a dot matrix display device.
• Selenium is still used in a few types of DC power surge protectors and one type of fluorescent quantum dot.
• There are many types of tensors, including scalars and vectors (which are the simplest tensors), dual vectors, multilinear maps between vector spaces, and even some operations such as the dot product.
• In 20th-century music, a dot placed above or below a note indicates that it should be played staccato, and a wedge is used for the more emphatic staccatissimo.
• The spacecraft's magnetic field source, represented by the purple dot, generates a magnetic field, shown as expanding black circles.
• In the same year Hell invented an apparatus called the Hellschreiber, an early forerunner to impact dot matrix printers and faxes.
• Many impact printers, such as the daisywheel printer and dot matrix printer, used a print head that printed a character then moved on until an entire line was printed.
• Dot matrix printing, sometimes called impact matrix printing, is a computer printing process in which ink is applied to a surface using a relatively low-resolution dot matrix for layout.
• A serial dot matrix printer has a print head that runs back and forth, or in an up and down motion, on the page and prints by impact, striking an ink-soaked cloth ribbon against the paper, much like the print mechanism on a typewriter.
• A stored energy printer is a computer printer that uses the energy stored in a spring or magnetic field to push a hammer through a ribbon to print a dot.
• Archaeological evidence of prehistoric human settlement on the island of Sardinia is present in the form of nuraghes and other prehistoric monuments, which dot the land.
• In the fifth century, Syriac Bible manuscripts used question markers, according to a 2011 theory by manuscript specialist Chip Coakley: he believes the zagwa elaya ("upper pair"), a vertical double dot over a word at the start of a sentence, indicates that the sentence is a question.
• Most types of modern technology use dot matrices for display of information, including mobile phones, televisions, and printers.
• To avoid repeating the APL special-character problem, J uses only the basic ASCII character set, resorting to the use of the dot and colon as inflections to form short words similar to digraphs.
• Symbol-specific names are also used; decimal point and decimal comma refer to a dot (either baseline or middle) and comma respectively, when it is used as a decimal separator; these are the usual terms used in English, with the aforementioned generic terms reserved for abstract usage.
• The river has one of Europe's largest canyons, and the caves that dot the cliffs—which go as high as 300 metres (1,000 feet)—are known for signs of prehistoric inhabitants (arrowheads and flint knives are often found).
• Good roads dot the parish and some owners live in Tallulah, using automobiles to supervise their extensive holdings.
• However, orthogonal matrices arise naturally from dot products, and for matrices of complex numbers that leads instead to the unitary requirement.
• Dall Sheep dot the higher slopes while moose feed upon the tender new growth that springs up in the wake of frequent lightning-caused fires.

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