raised point

raised point (plural raised points)

1. (typography) · (middle dot)^[1] (or sometimes . (full stop)^[2]) (the punctuation mark used as a raised decimal point in British English).
   • 1967, Horace Hart, Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press Oxford‎^[3], Oxford University Press, page 17:

     Use a raised point (·) to express decimals, as 7·06; and print 0·76, not ·76. When the time of day is intended to be shown, the full point (.) is to be used, as 4.30 a.m.

2. (grammar) · or · (the Greek punctuation mark used in place of a semicolon in English).
   • 2001, James M. Efird, A Grammar for New Testament Greek‎^[4], Wipf & Stock Publishers, page 5:

     The point on the line (.) in Greek is equivalent to the English period. The mark (;) indicates a question. The raised point (·) may signify English comma, semicolon, or colon. The student must determine from the context which is correct. (In most printed Greek texts, however, modern editors have put commas into the text. This practice means that the raised point will usually designate a semicolon or a colon.)

   • 2012, David Holton, Peter Mackridge, Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Vassilios Spyropoulos, Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language, Routledge, page 43:

     Peculiar to Greek is the use of the raised point (άνω τελεία: ·), which is used instead of the semicolon.

• · is correctly represented by the Unicode character U+0387 ⟨·⟩, which is positioned similarly to the top point of a colon ⟨:⟩ or semicolon ⟨;⟩
• For technical reasons U+0387 reproduces in Wiktionary as the Latin middle dot U+00B7. Depending on the font used, or the font features being applied, middle dot U+00B7 ⟨·⟩ may be or is often lower than U+0387 ⟨·⟩.

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