DoT
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- noun
- Jargon
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daño a lo largo del tiempo
- At the height of the dot-com craze, Fortune magazine had put Ellis's net worth at twenty-one billion dollars.
- quantum dots
Examples
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Consequently, when light shines on a quantum dot, it transfers the energy to the molecule, which then reflects a fluorescent glow.
Academic text (2011) -
The poison caused a persistent DoT that slowly reduced the hero's health over time.
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Meanwhile, he kept not getting promised high-paying U.S. jobs due to the dot-com bust.
Blog text (16) -
It was really an overextension of the model to what turned out to be a limited consumer demand that caused the dot com collapse.
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Single spins are put into semiconductor quantum dots and controlled with voltage pulses.
Academic text (2006) -
In the game, enemies can inflict a DoT effect with their magic attacks, causing damage every few seconds.
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After stepping into the trap, the character suffered a DoT that kept draining her mana while she remained affected.
Idioms
- Informal
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To pay careful attention to small details when finishing a task
Compounds
- Texting
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A company that does most of its business on the internet with a website ending in .com
- Texting
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A company that does most of its business online, often with a website ending in .com
- Texting
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A business that does most of its work online and uses a website ending in .com
- Specialized
A number made by multiplying pairs of numbers from two lists and adding them
- Specialized
A small raised dot used to show multiplication in math, often instead of the letter x
How Damaging
Surface Forms
Morphology
DoT = D + o + T
DoT here is an initialism (damage over time) used as gaming jargon; it is not built from standard English morphemes and cannot be transparently derived by knowing component words alone.
Etymology
DoT is a gaming abbreviation for damage over time, which means 'damage' that happens 'over' a period of 'time' instead of all at once. So a DoT effect slowly lowers a character's health, like a poison that keeps hurting you.