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Glyph origin
Use as a multiplication or product operator is usually attributed to German polymath.

Usage notes

 * Many Britons employ the American decimal point ⟨⟩ owing to a general lack of support for the middot character on computers. It remains common in writing done by hand.
 * The IUPAC Recommendations for Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry state: “Centre dots in formulae of (formal) addition compounds, including hydrates, adducts, clathrates, double salts and double oxides, separate the individual constituents. The dot is written in the centre of the line to distinguish it from a full stop (period).”

Diacritical mark

 * 1) middot, middle dot a diacritical mark of the Latin script, called in Catalan, and found in the combination ' to distinguish it from the digraph '

Usage notes

 * In text messages or emails sometimes replaced with a full stop, ⟨⟩.

Usage notes

 * Rarely used in general. Is used similarly to the Japanese symbol.

Usage notes

 * Another way to write such forms in gender-neutral writing is to give both the masculine and feminine forms connected by, the form that goes first being determined by alphabetical order.
 * French-language authorities, such as the, usually strongly proscribe the practice.

Letter

 * 1) the

Punctuation mark

 * 1)  raised point

Usage notes

 * · can be uniquely represented by the Unicode character.
 * In many places, including on Wiktionary, U+0387 is automatically converted to . This is because U+0387 is converted to U+00B7 by all s.
 * In some fonts, is positioned higher than, similarly to the top point of a colon ( : ) or semicolon ( ; ).

Punctuation mark

 * 1) Used to indicate a word boundary.