Unsupported titles/`period`

. (English name full stop or period)

1. Indicates the end of a sentence or passage of text.
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, b. 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. Indicates ordinal numerals

      4., IV. — “fourth”

   2. (obsolete) Used after numbers, representing a cardinal number.

      100. — “a hundred”

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

10. (Australian rules football) Used to separate a team's number of goals from its number of behinds, and sometimes from its total score.

    Brisbane Lions 20.14 (134) defeated Collingwood 12.12 (84)

    Brisbane Lions 20.14.134 defeated Collingwood 12.12.84

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
• To separate the chapter name from the page number: leader
  • Introduction..................................13

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Unsupported titles/`period`.

.

1. A separator used with numbers.
   1. In some counting systems, the decimal separator.
   2. In some counting systems, the thousands separator.
   3. Separates hours, minutes, and seconds when reporting time.

      Synonym: :

      • 1986, D. P. Poppi, “Nitrogen transactions in the digestive tract of lambs exposed to the intestinal parasite, Trichostrongylus colubriformis”, in British Journal of Nutrition, volume 55, number 3 (in English), page 593:

        Basically 300 μCi ⁵¹CrCl₃ contained in 10 ml sterile saline was injected into the jugular vein and the radioactivity and protein concentration of the plasma determined in samples of blood withdrawn by vacupuncture at 09.00 hours each morning for the following 5 d.

      • 2004, Steve Moxon, “Storyline: Bev Gets Knotted”, in The Great Immigration Scandal (in English), Imprint Academic, →ISBN, page 195:

        At 12.30 in the afternoon – half-an-hour earlier and she could have been accused of perpetrating an April Fool’s swansong deception – Hughes stood up in the Commons, doughnutted by as ugly a bunch of sad or scowling Blair babes as you could gather.

      • 2005 December 16, “Online Style Guide - T”, in Times Online‎ (in English), archived from the original on 13 February 2007:

        Use a point in expressing continental time - 01.55, 14.00 etc.

      • 2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Guides)‎, 2nd edition (in English), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 328:

        Three ferries per day sail from Nangan to Xiju’s Qingfan Port and Dongju’s Mengao Harbour (departs 🕘︎ 07.00, 11.00 & 14.30; takes 50mins; NTD200 one-way).

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 a version number.

         version 1.2.16

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

         127.0.0.1 = localhost

   6. (regular expressions) Matches any single character.
3. (chat rooms, Twitter) Used to prefix a message to prevent it from being treated as a command.

   .@Tim needs to fix this problem ASAP

   How do I leave the chatroom? – ./exit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Unsupported titles/`period`.

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

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. Used to mark ordinal numbers, pronounced -garren.

   Badirudi XX. [hogeigarren] mendean jaio zela. ― It seems like he/she was was born in the 20th century.

   Etxe hau kaleko 5.a [bosgarrena] da. ― This is the fifth house in the street.

• Used when writing numbers numerically, either with Arabic or Roman numerals. Spellings like *3garren (“third”) are nonstandard, hirugarren or 3. are used instead.
• The ordinal for bat (“one”) is irregular. Thus, 1. (“first”) is pronounced lehen or lehenengo.
• Case endings (if required) are written immediately after the dot (see the usage example above).

• “zenbaki ordinalak” in Euskara Batuaren Eskuliburua [Handbook of Standard Basque], euskaltzaindia.eus

Common European practice, also used in e.g. German and also more rarely in English and Swedish.

.

1. End of sentence or passage.
2. Used at the end of many abbreviations; a word is usually abbreviated by truncating it right before the vowel(s) in the second syllable and then adding a period at the end.
3. Used to mark ordinal numbers, generally pronounced -s.

   0. (nollas) ― 0th

   1. (ensimmäinen, yhdes) ― 1st

   2. (toinen, kahdes) ― 2nd

   3. (kolmas) ― 3rd

   4. (neljäs) ― 4th

   11. (yhdestoista) ― 11th

   n. (ännäs) ― nth

• An abbreviated word or ordinal number may stand in for any inflected form, e.g. that of the following word.
  • (ordinal numbers): If the inflected form meant is important yet ambiguous or unclear, an alternative scheme for writing ordinal numbers can be used instead: :s for most numbers (e.g. 3:s) and :nen for numbers ending in -nen (e.g. 1:nen, 2:nen), with these forms in the nominative singular, and the ending can then be inflected.
• (ordinal numbers): Used when writing numbers numerically, either with Arabic or Roman numerals.

head=.

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.