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dot | Business English

dot
noun[ C ]
uk /dɒt/us
INTERNET
a very small round mark that is used in an internet address or email address to separate its parts:
Dot gov sites are reserved for governmental offices.
 on the dot
exactly at the stated or expected time
 connect/join the dots
to understand the relationship between different ideas, facts, or experiences:
My experiment has revealed how we fail to connect the dots between the way we live today and the needs of tomorrow.

Examples of dot

dot
They appear as white dots when viewed by shadowgraph from above, and as white vertical lines when viewed by shadowgraph from the side.
This route is visible only as a series of dots rather than a line.
Note: dots do not indicate the precise location where the pest was initially recorded or its present area of distribution within the respective countries.
By the use of a channel (such as dots and dashes), the sender reduces the number of options in the behavior of the receiver.
The easiest way, that does not even depart too much from the required precision, is to dot with a stylus or pen.
Most of the hairs arise from little creamy white dots, some of which are enclosed in small round black or bluish grey spots.
During the rest of the trial, only the full circle and a single dot representing the actual pen location were displayed on the screen.
The youngest monkeys showed directionally selective orienting and the ability to integrate motion signals at large dot displacements and fast speeds.
We made only limited use of the dot blot method in which 104 organisms were dotted onto nitrocellulose filters for denaturation and hybridization.
The other operations involve vector-vector dot products, scalar-vector multiplies, and in general, only operations involving vectors.
To explicate this position, we map the likely operational mechanics of dot eu by employing a conceptual framework which extends academic analysis in two areas.
There were mills dotted all over the landscape, windmills and water ones.
The size of each dot represents the number of observations.
The experimental technique used in our measurements guarantees high spectral and spatial resolution, the effects of temporal integration are reduced by the dot target design.
The inner product of two vectors is equivalent to the standard scalar (dot) product.
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Collocations withdot

dot

These are words often used in combination with dot.

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black dot
The blackdot represents the light source.
blue dot
The spectrum of earthshine : a pale bluedot observed from the ground.
brown dot
All of the circles, with diameters of 57-59 mm, are drawn with pen compasses; in each case, the center point is marked by a tiny browndot.
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