What does it mean (.) "DOT" ?

Question

WE USE IT IN SITES ADDRESS
LIKE THIS :-

WWW. (DOT)
OR
.COM

Answer 1

dot = Depatrment of Transportation

Answer 2

dot is..........................
The decimal separator is a symbol used to mark the boundary between the integral and the fractional parts of a decimal numeral. Terms implying the symbol used are decimal point and decimal comma.Numbers with many digits before and/or after the decimal separator may be divided into groups of three, starting from the decimal separator in both directions. The symbol for this is called the thousands separator or, more generally (see India below), digit group separator. If the decimal separator is a point, the thousands separator is often a comma or a space. The latter is recommended in the SI/ISO 31-0. If the decimal separator is a comma, the thousands separator is often a point or a space. Notations like "12,345", "12.345", "12,345.678", and "12.345,678" are ambiguous if the notational system is not known.

Making groups of three digits also emphasizes that there is a base 1000 of the numeral system that is being used. See Decimal superbase


When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot is usually reserved for the Interpunct (·), or 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 Eastern European languages and Vietnamese.
Usage

Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot as a diacritic mark:

* In IAST and National Library at Calcutta romanization, transcribing Indic languages, a dot below a letter indicates retroflex consonants, while an underdot signifies an emphatic consonant.
* Traditional Irish typography, where the dot denotes lenition, and is called a ponc séimhithe 'dot of lenition': ḃ ċ ḋ ḟ ġ ṁ ṗ ṡ ṫ
* Lithuanian: ė
* Maltese: ċ ġ ż
* Polish: ż
* In romanizations of Semitic languages, a dot below a consonant is used to indicate the "emphatic version" of that consonant. For example, á¹£ represents an emphatic s. In Arabic romanization in particular, Ä¡ stands for the ghayin.
* The dot above lowercase i and j (and uppercase Ä° in Turkish) is not regarded as an independent diacritic, but rather as an integral part of the letter.
* Vietnamese. The nặng tone (low, glottal) is represented with a dot below the base vowel: ạ ặ ậ ẹ ệ ị ọ ộ ợ ụ ự ỵ.
* In Yoruba, the dot is used below the o, the e and the s: those three letters can also occur without dot as another letter.

In mathematics and physics the dot denotes the time derivative as in v=\dot{x}.

Answer 3

DOMAIN NAME
The unique name that identifies an Internet site. Domain Names always have 2 or more parts, separated by dots. The part on the left is the most specific, and the part on the right is the most general. A given machine may have more than one Domain Name but a given Domain Name points to only one machine. For example, the domain names:

matisse.net
mail.matisse.net
workshop.matisse.net


can all refer to the same machine, but each domain name can refer to no more than one machine.

Usually, all of the machines on a given Network will have the same thing as the right-hand portion of their Domain Names (matisse.net in the examples above). It is also possible for a Domain Name to exist but not be connected to an actual machine. This is often done so that a group or business can have an Internet e-mail address without having to establish a real Internet site. In these cases, some real Internet machine must handle the mail on behalf of the listed Domain Name.

Answer 4

The only DOT I know is Department of Transportation

Answer 5

It is a way for Internet servers to parse out the information in a URL, IP Address, or E-mail address so it can direct the information where it needs to go.

Answer 6

the syntax of the format where IRIs are used (eg. HTML, XML, SVG, etc) must support the use of non-ASCII characters in Web addresses
the application where IRIs are used (eg. browsers, parsers, etc.) must support the input and use of non-ASCII characters in Web addresses
it must be possible to carry the information in an IRI through the necessary protocol (eg. HTTP, FTP, IMAP, etc.)
it must be possible to successfully match the string of characters in your Web address against the name of the resource you are pointing to on the file system or registry where it is stored.
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Answer 7

The period in the adress is called a "dot" in internetspeak. The "@" amd the "dot" are in every IP address.

Answer 8

Doesn't it sperate sections? like it seperates
websitename.com the website from the com because
websitename.net is different than .com

Answer 9

the period is called a dot in tech terms

Answer 10

It is a separator in the address, like the period at the end of a sentence.