Interpunct
Typographical symbol, variously used as word delimiter, currency decimal delimiter, etc. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Middot" redirects here. For the religious tractate, see Middot (Talmud).
An interpunct ⟨·⟩, also known as an interpoint,[1] middle dot, middot, centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in Classical Latin. (Word-separating spaces did not appear until some time between 600 and 800 CE.) It appears in a variety of uses in some modern languages and is present in Unicode as U+00B7 · MIDDLE DOT.
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The multiplication dot (Unicode U+22C5 ⋅ DOT OPERATOR) is frequently used in mathematical and scientific notation, and it may differ in appearance from the interpunct.