dot

A small, round spot.

a dot of colour

Long stood Sir Bedivere / Revolving many memories, till the hull / Look’d one black dot against the verge of dawn / And on the mere the wailing died away.

A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.

A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.

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.

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%.

To cover with small spots (of some liquid).

His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.

Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.

To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.

Dot your is and cross your ts.

To mark by means of dots or small spots.

to dot a line

To mark or diversify with small detached objects.

to dot a landscape with cottages

The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle.

To punch (a person).

`Which means,' said John, `that someone dotted him a good one, shoved him into the bathtub, ran the water, then opened his mouth and poured champagne into it until he drowned.'

Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.

The work is equal to F dot Δx.