full point

noun — 2 senses

nounalso spelled full-point

Media, Publishing, Typography UK full stop, period (British printers' term)

full-point

noun

Media, Publishing, Typography Obsolete Synonym of full stop or period ⟨.⟩.

Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:

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