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In punctuation, the full stop (in British English) or period (in American English) is a punctuation mark placed at the end of a sentence. The full stop glyph is sometimes called a baseline dot because, typographically, it is a dot on the baseline. This term distinguishes the baseline dot from the interpunct (a raised dot).<ref name=Williamson>{{#invoke:Citation/CS1|citation
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The full stop glyph is also used for other purposes. It is often used at the end of an initial letter used to stand for a name, and is sometimes used at the end of individual letters in an initialism (for example, "U.S.A."; see Acronym#Punctuation). It also has multiple contexts in mathematics and computing, where it may be called dot or point (short for decimal point).<ref name=Williamson/>
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{{#invoke:Hatnote|hatnote}}
In punctuation, the full stop (in British English) or period (in American English) is a punctuation mark placed at the end of a sentence. The full stop glyph is sometimes called a baseline dot because, typographically, it is a dot on the baseline. This term distinguishes the baseline dot from the interpunct (a raised dot).<ref name=Williamson>{{#invoke:Citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=journal
}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web
}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=book
}}</ref>
The full stop glyph is also used for other purposes. It is often used at the end of an initial letter used to stand for a name, and is sometimes used at the end of individual letters in an initialism (for example, "U.S.A."; see Acronym#Punctuation). It also has multiple contexts in mathematics and computing, where it may be called dot or point (short for decimal point).<ref name=Williamson/>
Full stop sections
Intro History Usage Punctuation styles when quoting Full stops in other scripts Encodings See also References
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