Editing Interpunct (section)

{{Short description|Typographical symbol, variously used as word delimiter, currency decimal delimiter, etc.}}
{{Redirect|Middot|the religious tractate|Middot (Talmud)}}
{{Infobox symbol
|mark=·
|name=Interpunct
|unicode={{unichar|00B7|html=}}
|see also={{unichar|02D1|nlink=International Phonetic Alphabet}}
|different from =
{{Unichar|2027|nlink=}}<br />
{{Unichar|2219|nlink=}}<br />
{{unichar|22C5|nlink=}}<br />
{{unichar|A78F|nlink=}}
}}
{{Orthography notation}}
{{Contains special characters}}

An '''interpunct''' '''{{char|·}}''', also known as an '''interpoint''',<ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-0-9629740-1-4|author=Catich, Edward|title=The Origin of the Serif: Brush Writing and Roman Letters|location=Des Moines, Iowa|publisher=Saint Ambrose University Catich Gallery|date=1991 }}</ref> '''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 800{{nbsp}}[[Common 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.