decimal point

Communications, Journalism, Literature, Media, Orthography, Publishing, Typography, Writing A period/full stop ⟨.⟩ or middot ⟨·⟩ used to set off the decimal or fractional part of a number, traditionally widely used in some countries but not others.

Communications, Journalism, Literature, Media, Orthography, Publishing, Typography, Writing Broadly Any decimal mark (decimal separator), inclusive of commas, separatrices, etc.

Arithmetic Broadly, Proscribed A decimal place.