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mid-dot

mid-dot is the alternative form of middot.

Meaning of middot

Noun

middot (plural middots)

  1. Synonym of interpunct ⟨·⟩.
    • However, there is not set agreement on how to pronounce words with middots. As mentioned on previous pages, depending on the situation, sometimes it may be better to change the structure of a sentence to avoid a gendered descriptor.2022, Amber Hoye, Mariah Devereux Herbeck, Brittney Gehrig, Sharon Westbrook, Madelynn Ruhter, Emily Blackburn, Jason Herbeck, Hortense Saget, Français inclusif: An Interactive Textbook for French...
    Synonyms:
    interpunct

Forms of mid-dot

pluralmid-dots

Questions about mid-dot

What is mid-dot the alternative form of?
Mid-dot is the alternative form of middot.

Words near mid-dot in the dictionary

  1. mid-day
  2. mid-days
  3. mid-December
  4. mid-domain effect
  5. mid-domain effects
  6. mid-dot
  7. mid-dots
  8. mid-drift
  9. mid-drifts
  10. mid-evil
  11. mid-fall

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mid-dot (page history and authors); middot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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