to the dot

English

Prepositional phrase

to the dot

1. Dated form of on the dot.
   • 1896, Rudyard Kipling, “(please specify the poem name)”, in The Seven Seas, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:

     Easy bearings to carry—three South—three to the dot;

   • 1913 December, Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past, A Case of Blackmail:

     At twelve to the dot Howard Burroughs was shown into the little morning room

   • c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2:

     Eleven-thirty to the dot. The good old Amelia that brought Madame Helena to us.