Dot Operator
Part of Math Symbols
Dot Operator has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⋅
- Unicode
- U+22C5
About this symbol
⋅, the dot operator, means multiplication, as in 3 ⋅ 4, and the dot product of two vectors. Gottfried Leibniz preferred a raised dot to the cross × because the cross looked too much like the letter x.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- DOT OPERATOR
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Operators
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Preferred to 00B7 for denotation of multiplication
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