# 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
* United States Department of Transportation
** Department of transportation, a general list of local and state departments of transportation in the 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
### Antarctica

* Dot Cliff, Victoria Land
* Dot Peak, Oates Land

### United States

* Dot, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
* Dot, Michigan, ghost town
* Lake Dot, in Orlando, Florida
* Dot Island (disambiguation)
* Dorchester, Boston, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts

## 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
* Aditi Saigal or Dot (born 1998), Indian singer and actress
* Dot, one of the mascots of PBS Kids since 1999

## Other uses

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