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An interpunct ·, also known as an interpoint, [1] middle dot, middot, centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in Classical Latin. (Word-separating spaces did not appear until some time between 600 and 800 CE.) It appears in a variety of uses in some modern languages.
In typography, a bullet or bullet point, •, is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list.For example: • Item 1 • Item 2 • Item 3 The bullet symbol may take any of a variety of shapes, such as circular, square, diamond or arrow.
When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot refers 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 a variety of languages. Similar marks are used with other scripts.
In logic, a set of symbols is commonly used to express logical representation. The following table lists many common symbols, together with their name, how they should be read out loud, and the related field of mathematics.
A with tilde and dot below: ISO 9 Ạ̄ ạ̄: A with macron and dot below: ALA-LC romanization Ặ ặ: A with breve and dot below: Vietnamese Ạ̈ ạ̈: A with diaeresis and dot below: ISO 9, Middle Low German: Ạ̈̀ ạ̈̀: A with diaeresis and grave and dot below: Ạ̈́ ạ̈́: A with diaeresis, acute and dot below: Ạ̈̂ ạ̈̂
The MLA now indicates that a three-dot, spaced ellipsis . . . should be used for removing material from within one sentence within a quote. When crossing sentences (when the omitted text contains a period, so that omitting the end of a sentence counts), a four-dot, spaced (except for before the first dot) ellipsis . . . .
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Here they are arranged in alphabetical order for comparison (or for copy and paste convenience). Since these characters appear in different Unicode ranges, they may not appear to be the same size or position due to font substitution by the browser.