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Full stop

The full stop (Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point (.), is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative sentence (as distinguished from a question or exclamation).

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Period

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Usage

Punctuation styles when quoting

Spacing after a full stop

In other scripts

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Full stop

Nodes206
Edges205
Triples166
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009709
Components1

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Full stop

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related to Unicode · 35
Full stop → A4FF, A60E, A6F3, ARABIC FULL STOPU, ARMENIAN FULL STOPU, BAMUM FULL STOPU, BASSA VAH FULL STOPU, CANADIAN SYLLABICS FULL STOPU, COPTIC FULL STOPU, COPTIC OLD NUBIAN FULL, DUPLOYAN PUNCTUATION CHINOOK FULL, E002ETAG FULL STOP, ETHIOPIC FULL STOPU, FE12, FE52, FF0E, FF61, Full, FULL STOPU, FULLWIDTH FULL STOPU
related to Abbreviations · 14
Full stop → Are, British, Bush, Gabriel Gama Jr, George, However, If, In, It, Milne, My, North American English, This, Though
related to Ancient Greek origin · 14
Full stop → Alexandria, Aristophanes, BCE, Byzantium, Eynsham's Old English, Greek, His, In, Isidore, It, Latin, Seville, The, There
related to Medieval Latin to modern English · 13
Full stop → American English, British English, For, Fowler's Modern English Usage, From, Hart's Rules, In, New Hart's Rules, Style, The, The Oxford Guide, This, Western Europe
related to Spacing after a full stop · 13
Full stop → English, French, ISO, It, Latin, Linotype, Modern, One, Some, TeX, There, This, Two
related to Punctuation styles when quoting · 12
Full stop → American, American Skin, Boss, British, Bruce Springsteen, Canada, For, He, In, The, This, United States
related to Chinese and Japanese · 9
Full stop → Chinese, FE12, IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP, In, In Unicode, Japanese, PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL, Punctuation, When
related to Shahmukhi · 8
Full stop → ARABIC FULL STOP, For Indo-Aryan, Kashmiri, Nastaliq, Panjabi, Saraiki, The, Urdu
related to Ge'ez · 7
Full stop → Amharic, Eritrean, Ethiopian, ETHIOPIC FULL STOP, Ge'ez, In, The
related to In text messages · 7
Full stop → Binghamton University, Cecelia Klin, Jeff Guo, Our, Researchers, The, The Washington Post

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full used stop punctuation dot end use english mark also sentence period stops american style uses point called languages script

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Full stopOther namesPeriod1.00infobox
Rev.instance ofprimarily truncations0.80text
but not after contractions which retain the final letter such as Revdinstance ofprimarily truncations0.80text
Professorinstance ofthe standard abbreviations for titles0.80text
the Linotype machineinstance ofIt has also been used in other typesetting systems0.80text
the TeX systeminstance ofIt has also been used in other typesetting systems0.80text
Full stoprelated to AbbreviationsIt0.60section
Full stoprelated to AbbreviationsNorth American English0.60section
Full stoprelated to AbbreviationsMilne0.60section
Full stoprelated to AbbreviationsGeorge0.60section
Full stoprelated to AbbreviationsBush0.60section
Full stoprelated to AbbreviationsBritish0.60section

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