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Definition of full point in English: full pointnoun another term for full stop (as a punctuation mark) Example sentencesExamples - A longer quotation should close with a full point and any page reference should be placed after the full point.
- Abbreviations consisting of initial letters of words do not have a full point between letters: USA, CIS.
- The asterisk means that the residues in that column are identical in all sequences in the alignment; the colon means that conserved substitutions have been observed; the full point means that semi-conserved substitutions are observed.
- No full point for etc. if followed by other punctuation.
- In the latter case, give the reference in brackets below the quotation, with no full point after it.
- O M Brack Jr, for instance, does not use full points after his initials.
- My line is that printers call them full points, and normal people call them full stops; that is, unless a layman says ‘full point’, then the printer will correct him.
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