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  2. Full stop - Wikipedia

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    For example, the 1998 edition of Fowler's Modern English Usage used full point for the mark used after an abbreviation, but full stop or full point when it was employed at the end of a sentence; [7] the 2015 edition, however, treats them as synonymous (and prefers full stop), [8] and New Hart's Rules does likewise (but prefers full point). [9]

  3. English punctuation - Wikipedia

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    The character known as the full point or full stop in British and Commonwealth English and as the period in North American English . serves multiple purposes. As the full stop, it is used to mark the end of a sentence. It is also used, as the full point, to indicate abbreviation, including of names as initials: [10]

  4. Abbreviation - Wikipedia

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    An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word with a trailing period. For example: etcetera is usually abbreviated etc. and abbreviation is sometimes abbreviated abbr., abbrv., or abbrev.. But sometimes the trailing period is not used for such shortened forms. A contraction is an abbreviation formed by replacing letters with an apostrophe.

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Abbreviations

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    A shortening is an abbreviation formed by removing at least the last letter of a word (e.g. etc. and rhino), and sometimes also containing letters not present in the full form (e.g. bike). As a general rule, use a full point after a shortening that only exists in writing (e.g. etc.) but not for a shortening that is used in speech (e.g. rhino).

  6. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Full stop: Interpunct, Period: Decimal separator: ♀ ♂ ⚥ Gender symbol: LGBT symbols ` Grave (symbol) Quotation mark#Typewriters and early computers ̀: Grave (diacrictic) Acute, Circumflex, Tilde: Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic > Greater-than sign: Angle bracket « » Guillemet: Angle brackets, quotation marks: Much greater than ...

  7. List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions - Wikipedia

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    This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those). Capitalisation and the use of full stops are a matter of style. In the list, abbreviations in English are capitalized whereas those in Latin are not.

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  9. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Abbreviations/Archive 5

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    It says: "If an abbreviation ending in a full stop ends a sentence, do not use an extra full stop (e.g. New York is in the U.S. and not New York is in the U.S..)" At present the TOC currently reads: 1 Full stops 2 Acronyms 2.1 Exceptions 2.1.1 Ship names 2.1.2 Time zones 2.1.3 Miscellanea 2.2 Acronyms in page titles 2.3 Acronyms as disambiguators