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A period is used at the end of a sentence that is not a question or exclamation: It rained last Saturday. It is also used after some abbreviations: at 11 a.m. on Aug. 7, 2003. The period is increasingly omitted in abbreviations, especially after capital letters (e.g., VCR). Shortened forms used as words in their own right (e.g., gym, disco, pub) and acronyms pronounced as words (e.g., AIDS, laser, NATO) should not be written with periods. The same mark is used in decimal notation where it is read as "point." It is also used in Internet addresses, where it is read as "dot" (.com).
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