An
interpunct (
· ), also known as an
interpoint,
middle dot,
middot, and
centered dot (
centred dot), is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for
interword separation in ancient
Latin script. (Word-separating
spaces did not appear until some time between 600 and 800.) It appears in a variety of uses in some modern languages and is present in
Unicode as code point .