decimal point

1. 1.

   the dot at the left of a decimal fraction

   Synonymspercentage pointpoint

   Broadermathematical notation

Questions about decimal point

What does decimal point mean?

decimal point means "the dot at the left of a decimal fraction".

What is another word for decimal point?

Close synonyms include percentage point, point. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is decimal point a common word?

decimal point is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.