Unsupported titles/Full stop

.

1. Indicates the end of a sentence.
2. End of abbreviation.

   etc. — “et cetera”

   Mr J. Smith

3. Separates a number or letter from an item in a list.

   A. New York, B. London, C. Paris.

   a. New York, c. London, c. Paris.

   1. New York, 2. London, 3. Paris.

   I. New York, II. London, III. Paris.

4. Used between words, indicates paused, serious speech.

   I. Don't. Wanna. Hear.

5. Some uses associated with numbers.
   1. (obsolete) Used after numbers, either representing a cardinal or ordinal numeral

      100.

   2. Indicates ordinal numerals

      4., III.

6. (IPA) Indicates a syllable break.
7. Used in numbered section/subsection titles, separates the sections and subsections.

   10.1.4.6 How to make a profit

   10.1.4.7 How to keep your profit

8. Used in numbered images, illustrations, maps, graphs, etc.

   Map 1.4 Distribution of tigers in Africa

   Map 1.5 Distribution of elephants in Africa

9. Used repeatedly (as in: ........) in the index of a book, separates the chapter name from the page number.

   Introduction..................................13

   Chapter 1.....................................14

   Chapter 2.....................................19

In English, the symbol . has various names, used in different contexts:

• To signify the end of a sentence: period or full stop
  • My name is John. - My name is John period (US) or My name is John full stop (UK)
• For use as a decimal separator: point
  • 3.45 - three point four five
• For use of a thousand separator: - (not pronounced)
  • There are 1.000 species left. - There are one thousand species left
• In names in computing contexts (file-names, domain-names, and so on): dot
  • john.smith@example.com - john dot smith at example dot com

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Unsupported titles/Full stop.

.

1. A separator used with numbers.
   1. In some counting systems, the decimal separator.
   2. In some counting systems, the thousands separator.
2. (programming, computing, networking)
   1. In various programming languages, the structure access operator.

      point.x — “the ‘x’ property of the ‘point’ variable”

   2. In various programming languages, the string concatenation operator.

      echo 'I am currently ' . myAge(1981) . ' old.';

   3. In various operating systems, the current directory.

      ls . — “list the contents of the current directory”

   4. The class selector in CSS, which intends to format a class of an element. (a class can appear freely one or more times in a page, as opposed to the ID selector: #).

      div.quotedtext {font-style: italic}

   5. A delimiter.
      1. Separates a file name from its extension.

         document.txt — “the file with the base name ‘document’ and the extension ‘txt’”

      2. Separates the parts of the domain name of a website (including the subdomain and the top-level domain).

         en.wiktionary.org — “the Internet domain name with components ‘en’, ‘wiktionary’, and ‘org’”

      3. Separates the parts of an IP address (IPv4).

         127.0.0.1 = localhost

   6. (regular expressions) Matches any single character.

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Unsupported titles/Full stop.

• (decimal separator): , (in some counting systems)
• (thousand separator): , (in some counting systems)

• Full stop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Punctuation

1. A short signal, used to form Morse code text, together with - (a long signal).
2. Visual rendering of Morse code for E. (Latin)
3. Visual rendering of Morse code for Е. (Cyrillic)

1. Visual rendering of Morse code for Ε.

1. Visual rendering of Morse code for ו.

1. Visual rendering of Morse code for ヘ.

1. Visual rendering of Morse code for เ.