DOTnoun

• 1

  video-gamesA weapon or ability that deals damage over time as opposed to or in addition to direct damage.

Dotname

• 1

  A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.

dotnoun詞源 1/dɒt/

• 1

  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.
• 2

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

  • The homepage of English Wiktionary is en.wiktionary.org. [read aloud: E-N-dot-wiktionary-dot-org]
• 3

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

• 4

  mathematicssciencesA 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.

• 5

  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%.

• 6

  One of the two symbols used in Morse code.

  • The alphabetical signals are made up of combinations of dots and of lines of different lengths.
• 7

  obsoleteA lump or clot.

• 8

  Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.

  • a dot of a child

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• Department of Transportation or Department of Transport
• Department of Tourism
• disodium octaborate tetrahydrate
• damage over time
• dotty
• dotfile