dot

noun13

1. •
   a very small round mark, as made by the point of a pen

   • 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. — 1845
2. •
   A 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. •
   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.
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. •
   Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
7. •
   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. — 1838
8. •
   (informal) A dot ball.

   • That left 15 needed from Boult's final set. Two dots were followed by a heave over deep mid-wicket, then came the outrageous moment of fortune. — 2019
9. •
   Clipping of dotfile
10. •
    (slang) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun

    • Can’t miss no dots Every shot let caused I’m hittin Used to bag it up in the toilet My mumsie thought I was shittin — 2018
11. •
    (slang) Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).

    • We got rambos, glocks and dots, It takes two armed jakes to sum off the block — 2018
12. •
    (slang, rare) confinement facility

    • The feds want me in the dot I got luck for selling them drugs But when I come out I’m still building a spot — 2024
13. •
    (no longer used) A lump or clot.

noun3

1. •
   A weapon or ability that deals damage over time as opposed to or in addition to direct damage.
2. •
   Initialism of damage over time.
3. •
   Initialism of disodium octaborate tetrahydrate.