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full stop

Punctuation mark (.). It has two functions: to mark the end of a sentence and to indicate that a word has been abbreviated (see abbreviation). It is also used in mathematics to indicate decimals and is then called a point.



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This full stop had arrived and everyone perceived it, but Alexey Alexandrovitch himself was not yet aware that his career was over.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
At that instant a single rifle-shot was heard, away to the front, beyond the skirmish-line, followed, almost attended, by the savage hiss of an approaching bullet which passing through the line, struck audibly, punctuating as with a full stop the captain's exclamation, "What the devil does it mean?
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He had not proceeded far when his steed came to a full stop.
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