A middle dot is one of several types of dots that occur in the middle of a character space, such as the examples in the following table. Depending on context, it may serve as a punctuation mark or a diacritic. When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot is usually reserved for the middle dot ·, or to the glyphs combining dot above ̇ and combining dot below ̣ which may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in use in Eastern European languages and Vietnamese. ...

Characters in the Symbol column, above, may not render in all browsers. In computing, Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. ... An interpunct is a small dot used for interword separation in ancient Latin script, being perhaps the first consistent visual representation of word boundaries in written language. ... In typography, a bullet is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list, like below: This is the text of a list item. ... A hyphen ( - ) is a punctuation mark. ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Romaji ローマ字 Katakana (片仮名, literally: partial kana) are a Japanese syllabary, one of four Japanese writing systems (the others are hiragana, kanji and rōmaji). ...

The dot called interpunct was used regularly in early Latin, but had long been replaced by space. The Georgian language uses · (middot) as comma. The Taiwanese dot above right (indicating a more open vowel) is often expressed as a Unicode middle dot, as the necessary combining character was not codified prior to June 2004. As well, the Greek Ano Teleia (a semicolon-like punctuation mark, lit. "upper dot") is often expressed as a middle dot, although Unicode provides for a unique U+0387. [1] An interpunct is a small dot used for interword separation in ancient Latin script, being perhaps the first consistent visual representation of word boundaries in written language. ... Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Georgian (also Kartvelian; Kartuli in Georgian) is the official language of Georgia, a republic in the Caucasus. ... A comma ( , ) is a punctuation mark. ... Taiwanese (Chinese: 台語, 台灣話 or 福佬話; Taiwanese Pe̍h-oÄ“-jÄ«: Tâi-oân-oÄ“ or Hō-ló-oÄ“; Hanyu Pinyin: TáiyÇ” or Táiwānhuà) is the primary spoken language of 70% of the Taiwanese population. ...

In Japanese, foreign words written in katakana are separated by the middle dot (・) when necessary. The Japanese language does not use space or any punctuation to separate native words, but suffice with using a mix of writing systems of katakana, kanji, and hiragana to indicate word boundary. A middle dot is also sometimes used to separate lists instead of the Japanese comma ("、" known as tōten). In Japanese typography, the "katakana middle dot" (as the Unicode consortium calls it) has a fixed width that is the same as most kana characters, known as fullwidth. Note that while some fonts may render the middle dot as a square under great magnification, this is not a defining property of the middle dot that is used in Japan. Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Romaji ローマ字 Katakana (片仮名, literally: partial kana) are a Japanese syllabary, one of four Japanese writing systems (the others are hiragana, kanji and rōmaji). ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Romaji ローマ字 Katakana (片仮名, literally: partial kana) are a Japanese syllabary, one of four Japanese writing systems (the others are hiragana, kanji and rōmaji). ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Romaji ローマ字 Kanji (   漢字?, literally Han characters) are Chinese characters used in Japanese. ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Romaji ローマ字 Hiragana (平仮名 literally smooth kana) are a Japanese syllabary, one of four Japanese writing systems (the others are katakana, kanji and rōmaji). ... Typographic work Typography (from the Greek words typos = form and grapho = write) is the art and technique of selecting and arranging type styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing for typeset applications. ...

In Catalan, the punt volat (literally, "flown dot") is used between two l's (thus: l·l) in cases where each belongs to a separate syllable (e.g. col·lecció, collection). This is to distinguish the true "double-l" pronunciation from that of the letter-combination ll (without a dot) which in Catalan stands for the single sound represented by the IPA symbol [λ] (e.g. castellà, Castilian) . In spelling, l·l is called ela geminada ("geminate l") and ll ella. Catalan (Català, Valencià) is a Romance language understood by as many as 12 million people in portions of Spain, France, Andorra and Italy, although the majority of active Catalan speakers are in Spain. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet. ... In phonetics, gemination is when a spoken consonant is doubled, so that it is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than a single consonant. ...

In British publications up to the mid-1970s, especially scientific and mathematical texts, the decimal point was commonly typeset as a middle dot. When the British currency was decimalised in 1971, the official advice issued was to write decimal amounts with a raised point (thus: £21·48) and to use a decimal point "on the line" only when typesetting constraints made it unavoidable. The widespread introduction of electronic typewriters and calculators soon afterwards was probably a major factor contributing to the decline of the raised decimal point, although it can still sometimes be encountered in academic circles: e.g. Cambridge University 2004, and Durham University 2004. This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... The decimal separator is used to mark the boundary between the integer and the fractional parts of a decimal numeral. ... Decimalisation (or Decimalization) refers to any process of converting from traditional units, usually of money, to a decimal system. ... A calculator is a device for performing numerical calculations. ...

In mathematics, a small middle dot can be used to represent the product, for example x∙y for the product of x and y. When dealing with scalars, it is interchangeable with ×: x∙y means the same thing as x×y. However, when dealing with vectors, the dot product is distinct from the cross product. This usage has its own designated code point in Unicode, U+2219 (∙), called the "bullet operator". Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Mathematics Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: Mathematics Look up Mathematics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikimedia Commons has more media related to: Mathematics Bogomolny, Alexander: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles. ... Scalar is a concept that has meaning in mathematics, physics, and computing. ... The word vector means carrier in Latin; it is derived from the Latin verb vehere, which means to carry. ... In mathematics, the dot product, also known as the scalar product, is a binary operation which takes two vectors and returns a scalar quantity. ... In mathematics, the cross product is a binary operation on vectors in vector space. ...

In the Shavian alphabet, the middle dot is used before a word to denote it as a proper noun. Posthumously funded by and named for Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, the Shavian alphabet (also known as Shaw alphabet) was conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of the conventional spelling. ...

See also: Punctuation. Punctuation marks are written symbols that do not correspond to either phonemes (sounds) of a spoken language nor to lexemes (words and phrases) of a written language, but which serve to organize or clarify written language. ...