"decimal point" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: decimal points [plural]
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  1. (typography) A period/full stop ⟨.⟩ or middot ⟨·⟩ used to set off the decimal or fractional part of a number. Categories (topical): Typography Synonyms: separatrix [obsolete] Hypernyms: radix point, decimal mark Translations (the point used in English mathematics): ဒသမ (da.sa.ma.) (Burmese), 小數點 (Chinese Mandarin), 小数点 (xiǎoshùdiǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), desetinná tečka [feminine] (Czech), desimaalipiste (Finnish), point [masculine] (French), point décimal [masculine] (French), Punkt [masculine] (German), Dezimalpunkt [masculine] (German), τελεία (teleía) [feminine] (Greek), दशमलव (daśamlav) [masculine] (Hindi), tizedespont (Hungarian), pointe deachúlach [masculine] (Irish), punto (Italian), 小数点 (shōsūten) (alt: しょうすうてん) (Japanese), 소수점 (sosujeom) (alt: 小數點) (Korean), separator dziesiętny [masculine] (Polish), ponto [masculine] (Portuguese), punct zecimal [neuter] (Romanian), virgulă zecimală [feminine] (Romanian), десяти́чная то́чка (desjatíčnaja tóčka) [feminine] (Russian), punto decimal [masculine] (Spanish), coma decimal [feminine] (Spanish), decimalpunkt [common-gender] (Swedish), tuldok-sampuan (Tagalog), sampuing tuldok (Tagalog)
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  2. (typography, inexact) Any decimal mark, inclusive of commas, separatrices, etc. Categories (topical): Typography Translations (the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue): desetinná čárka [feminine] (Czech), desimaalipilkku (Finnish), virgule [feminine] (French), Komma [neuter] (German), Dezimalkomma [neuter] (German), υποδιαστολή (ypodiastolí) [feminine] (Greek), tizedesvessző (Hungarian), virgola [feminine] (Italian), separator dziesiętny [masculine] (Polish), vírgula [feminine] (Portuguese), запята́я (zapjatája) [feminine] (Russian), десяти́чная запята́я (desjatíčnaja zapjatája) [feminine] (Russian), decimalkomma (Swedish)
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  3. (arithmetic, proscribed) A decimal place. Tags: proscribed Categories (topical): Arithmetic
    Sense id: en-decimal_point-en-noun-kHFlD8Qr Topics: arithmetic

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    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Tagalog translations"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "decimal points",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "decimal point (plural decimal points)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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    {
      "word": "radix point"
    },
    {
      "word": "decimal mark"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Typography"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A period/full stop ⟨.⟩ or middot ⟨·⟩ used to set off the decimal or fractional part of a number."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "typography",
          "typography"
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          "full stop",
          "full stop"
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        [
          ".",
          "Unsupported_titles/Full_stop"
        ],
        [
          "middot",
          "middot"
        ],
        [
          "·",
          "·"
        ],
        [
          "use",
          "use"
        ],
        [
          "set off",
          "set off"
        ],
        [
          "decimal",
          "decimal"
        ],
        [
          "fractional",
          "fractional"
        ],
        [
          "part",
          "part"
        ],
        [
          "number",
          "number"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(typography) A period/full stop ⟨.⟩ or middot ⟨·⟩ used to set off the decimal or fractional part of a number."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "typography"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Typography"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any decimal mark, inclusive of commas, separatrices, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "typography",
          "typography"
        ],
        [
          "Any",
          "any"
        ],
        [
          "decimal mark",
          "decimal mark"
        ],
        [
          "inclusive",
          "inclusive"
        ],
        [
          "comma",
          "comma"
        ],
        [
          "separatrices",
          "separatrix"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "inexact",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(typography, inexact) Any decimal mark, inclusive of commas, separatrices, etc."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "typography"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English proscribed terms",
        "en:Arithmetic"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A decimal place."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "arithmetic",
          "arithmetic"
        ],
        [
          "decimal place",
          "decimal place"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(arithmetic, proscribed) A decimal place."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "proscribed"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "arithmetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "separatrix"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "da.sa.ma.",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "word": "ဒသမ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "word": "小數點"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiǎoshùdiǎn",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "word": "小数点"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "desetinná tečka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "word": "desimaalipiste"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "point"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "point décimal"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Punkt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Dezimalpunkt"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "teleía",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "τελεία"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "daśamlav",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "दशमलव"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "word": "tizedespont"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pointe deachúlach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "word": "punto"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しょうすうてん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shōsūten",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "word": "小数点"
    },
    {
      "alt": "小數點",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "sosujeom",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "word": "소수점"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "separator dziesiętny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ponto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "punct zecimal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "virgulă zecimală"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "desjatíčnaja tóčka",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "десяти́чная то́чка"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "punto decimal"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "coma decimal"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "decimalpunkt"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "word": "tuldok-sampuan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the point used in English mathematics",
      "word": "sampuing tuldok"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "desetinná čárka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue",
      "word": "desimaalipilkku"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "virgule"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Komma"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Dezimalkomma"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ypodiastolí",
      "sense": "the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "υποδιαστολή"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue",
      "word": "tizedesvessző"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "virgola"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "separator dziesiętny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vírgula"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zapjatája",
      "sense": "the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "запята́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "desjatíčnaja zapjatája",
      "sense": "the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "десяти́чная запята́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue",
      "word": "decimalkomma"
    }
  ],
  "word": "decimal point"
}

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