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An interpunct , also known as an interpoint, middle dot, middot, centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in Classical Latin. (space (punctuation), Word-separating spaces did not appear until some time between 600 and 800Common Era, CE.) It appears in a variety of uses in some modern languages. The #In mathematics and science, multiplication dot or "dot operator" is frequently used in mathematical and scientific notation, and it may differ in appearance from the interpunct. In written language Various dictionaries use the interpunct (in this context, sometimes called a hyphenation point) to indicate where to split a word and insert a hyphen if the word doesn't fit on the line. There is also a separate Unicode character, . English In British English, British typography, the space dot was once used as the formal decimal point. Its use was advocated by laws and can still be found in some UK-based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interword Separation
In punctuation, a word divider is a form of glyph which separates written Word, words. In languages which use the Latin alphabet, Latin, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic, and Arabic alphabets, as well as other scripts of Europe and West Asia, the word divider is a blank Space (punctuation), space, or ''whitespace''. This convention is spreading, along with other aspects of European punctuation, to Asia and Africa, where words are usually written without word separation. In character encoding, text segmentation#Word segmentation, word segmentation depends on which characters are defined as word dividers. History In Egyptian hieroglyphs, Ancient Egyptian, determinatives may have been used as much to demarcate word boundaries as to disambiguate the semantics of words. Rarely in Assyrian cuneiform, but commonly in the later cuneiform Ugaritic alphabet, a vertical stroke 𒑰 was used to separate words. In Old Persian cuneiform, a diagonally sloping wedge 𐏐 was used. As the alphabet spr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
