"dot point" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dot points",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dot point (plural dot points)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Mark Tredinnick, Geoff Whyte, The Little Black Book of Business Writing, page 159",
          "text": "Dot points work well when\neach dot is a short phrase or clause (like this)\neach one runs no longer than this (try to keep each point from run-\nning over a line, like this)\n[…]\nBut different rules apply when each dot point is a sentence or a paragraph—when, in other words, it stands on its own grammatically.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, “Lists”, in Australian Government Style Manual, archived from the original on 2021-09-21",
          "text": "The digital edition advises against using ‘and’ or ‘or’ at the end of dot points in lists. The sixth edition allowed ‘or’ at the end of a list item, though recommended avoiding this if possible.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An item in a bulleted list."
      ],
      "id": "en-dot_point-en-noun-jB5hNj55",
      "links": [
        [
          "item",
          "item"
        ],
        [
          "bulleted list",
          "bulleted list"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia) An item in a bulleted list."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bullet point"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dot point"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dot points",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dot point (plural dot points)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Mark Tredinnick, Geoff Whyte, The Little Black Book of Business Writing, page 159",
          "text": "Dot points work well when\neach dot is a short phrase or clause (like this)\neach one runs no longer than this (try to keep each point from run-\nning over a line, like this)\n[…]\nBut different rules apply when each dot point is a sentence or a paragraph—when, in other words, it stands on its own grammatically.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, “Lists”, in Australian Government Style Manual, archived from the original on 2021-09-21",
          "text": "The digital edition advises against using ‘and’ or ‘or’ at the end of dot points in lists. The sixth edition allowed ‘or’ at the end of a list item, though recommended avoiding this if possible.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An item in a bulleted list."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "item",
          "item"
        ],
        [
          "bulleted list",
          "bulleted list"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia) An item in a bulleted list."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bullet point"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dot point"
}