centred dot

He drew a series of concentric circles on a page with a single dot—Robert Moses—in the center.

Though Caroline only brought with her a dot of forty thousand francs, she stood for what was better still, immense possibilities.

Tony, less self-centred, less rigidly contained, had penetrated her by an understanding sympathy greater than his own.

For his heart seemed alternately full and empty; all the life he had was centred there.

A dot or two, sometimes only one, sometimes as many as five, are thrown in as a rough way of indicating the features.

Typical "segmenters" present a ring of rounded segments or spores, each with a small, dot-like chromatin mass.