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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

dot point en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Australia) An item in a bulleted list.
    • Dot points work well when each dot is a short phrase or clause (like this) each one runs no longer than this (try to keep each point from run- ning over a line, like this) […] But different rules apply when each dot point is a sentence or a paragraph—when, in other words, it stands on its own grammatically. 2010, Mark Tredinnick, Geoff Whyte, The Little Black Book of Business Writing, page 159:
    • 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. 2021, “Lists”, in Australian Government Style Manual, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2021:

Forms

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dot points Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

bullet point