decimal point

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Noun

decimal point (plural decimal points)

2. (orthography, typography) A period/full stop ⟨.⟩ or middot ⟨·⟩ used to set off the decimal or fractional part of a number, traditionally widely used in some countries but not others.

   Hypernyms: decimal mark < radix point < point, mark, character, separator

   Coordinate terms: decimal comma, separatrix (obsolete)

4. (orthography, typography, loosely) Any decimal mark (decimal separator), inclusive of commas, separatrices, etc.

   Synonym: decimal mark

   Hypernyms: radix point < point, mark, character, separator

   Hyponyms: decimal comma, separatrix (obsolete)

6. (arithmetic, loosely, proscribed) A decimal place.

Usage notes

• The term decimal point properly refers only to those signs marking the boundary between integer and decimal numbers with a point. For convenience, it is also used to speak of marks serving a similar function in other cultures. The use of decimal point to mean one of the digits in the fractional part of a decimal is, however, typically taken to be mistaken.

Translations

• In some countries, especially those in continental Europe, the symbol used is a comma, and so the word used in the languages spoken in these countries is often the same as or derived from the word for comma.

the point used in English mathematics

Arabic: فَاصِل عَشْرِيّ m (fāṣil ʕašriyy) Bulgarian: десетична точна f (desetična točna) Burmese: ဒသမ (my) (da.sa.ma.) Chinese: Mandarin: 小數點 / 小数点 (zh) (xiǎoshùdiǎn) Czech: desetinná tečka f Finnish: desimaalipiste French: point (fr) m, point décimal (fr) m German: Punkt (de) m, Dezimalpunkt (de) m Greek: τελεία (el) f (teleía) Hindi: दशमलव (hi) m (daśamlav) Hungarian: tizedespont (hu) Irish: pointe deachúlach m Italian: punto (it) Japanese: 小数点 (ja) (しょうすうてん, shōsūten) Korean: 소수점(小數點) (ko) (sosujeom) Polish: separator dziesiętny m Portuguese: ponto (pt) m Romanian: punct zecimal n, virgulă zecimală f Russian: десяти́чная то́чка f (desjatíčnaja tóčka) Spanish: punto decimal (es) m, coma decimal f Swedish: decimalpunkt (sv) c Tagalog: tuldok-sampuan, sampuing tuldok Ukrainian: десятко́ва кра́пка f (desjatkóva krápka)

the decimal mark symbol, characteristic to the native tongue

Bulgarian: десетична запетая f (desetična zapetaja) Czech: desetinná čárka f Finnish: desimaalipilkku (fi) French: virgule (fr) f German: Komma (de) n, Dezimalkomma n Greek: υποδιαστολή (el) f (ypodiastolí) Hungarian: tizedesvessző (hu) Italian: virgola (it) f Polish: separator dziesiętny m Portuguese: vírgula (pt) f Russian: запята́я (ru) f (zapjatája), десяти́чная запята́я f (desjatíčnaja zapjatája) Swedish: decimalkomma (sv) Ukrainian: десятко́ва ко́ма (desjatkóva kóma)

decimal place — see decimal place