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(decimal point): Many Britons employ the American decimal point ⟨.⟩ owing to a general lack of support for the middot character on computers. It remains common in writing done by hand.
(addition compound): The IUPAC Recommendations for Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry[1] state: “Centre dots in formulae of (formal) addition compounds, including hydrates, adducts, clathrates, double salts and double oxides, separate the individual constituents. The dot is written in the centre of the line to distinguish it from a full stop (period).”
middot, middle dot(called punt volat(“flown dot”) in Catalan, and found in the combination l·l to distinguish it from the digraph ll. It was once used for elision, especially in poetry.)
Usage notes
In modern orthography, the middot is only used in the sequence l·l. Unicode has the dedicated characters ŀ and Ŀ.
In text messages or emails sometimes replaced with a full stop, ⟨.⟩.
Chinese
Punctuation mark
·
Separates first and last names in personal names transcribed into Chinese characters.
Separates the month from the day in events, commemorations, etc. named after dates, only used after January (一 (yī)), November (一一 (yīyī)) and December (一二 (yī'èr)) when hanzi are used.
一·二八事變／一·二八事变 ― yī-èrbā shìbiàn ― January 28 Incident
Rarely used in general. Is used similarly to the Japanese symbol ・.
French
Punctuation mark
·
(neologism, often proscribed)Used in certain forms of gender-neutralwriting either before or around the feminine suffix, to avoid both the use of the masculine as the default form and the verbosity of writing out both the masculine and feminine forms.
étudiant·es ― étudiantes et étudiants ― female students and male students
étudiant·e·s ― étudiantes et étudiants ― female students and male students
Usage notes
Another way to write such forms in gender-neutral writing is to give both the masculine and feminine forms connected by et, the form that goes first being determined by alphabetical order.
French-language authorities, such as the Académie française, usually strongly proscribe the practice.
· can be uniquely represented by the Unicode character U+0387GREEK ANO TELEIA.
In many places, including on Wiktionary, U+0387 is automatically converted to · (U+00B7MIDDLE DOT). This is because U+0387 is converted to U+00B7 by all Unicode normalizations.
In some fonts, · (U+0387) is positioned higher than · (U+00B7), similarly to the top point of a colon (:) or semicolon (;).
