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It is also used after abbreviations, such as Mr., Dr., Mrs., Ms. (In England, titles now tend to be given without a full stop. In the USA, the older usage is still adhered to.)
The same glyph is very often used, rather than a mid-line point, as a decimal point (or dot) in English-speaking countries. For example:
In computing, it is often used as a delimiter[?], for example in DNS lookups and file names. For example:
See also: period (rhetoric)
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