high dot

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high dot

noun high dots

Synonym of high point: · or ·. At the end of a complete sentence (Latin periodus), the speaker paused to take on air, and that pause was sometimes indicated with a high dot ·. A speaker might also pause when he had covered a large portion of a sentence − a member; in Latin this was a colon, the same word used for the “great gut.”
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@misc{high_dot_2026,
  title = {high dot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/high%20dot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}