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Translingual

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Indicates the end of a sentence.
End of abbreviation.
etc. — “et cetera”

Mr J. Smith
In some counting systems, the decimal separator.
In some counting systems, the thousands separator.
(computing) A delimiter.
en.wiktionary.org — “the Internet domain name with components ‘en’, ‘wiktionary’, and ‘org’”

document.txt — “the file with the base name ‘document’ and the extension ‘txt’”
(computing, various operating systems) The current directory.
ls . — “list the contents of the current directory”
(computing, various programming languages) Structure access operator.
point.x — “the ‘x’ property of the ‘point’ variable”
(IPA) Indicates a syllable break.

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

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One of the letters of the Lojban alphabet, called denpa bu and indicating a pause or glottal stop.

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