Live briefing
Everything about Full stop
Punctuation to signal the end of a sentence (.)
The full stop, period, or full point, is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative sentence. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Full stopA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Compact and High Steep Skirts Hybrid Heterogeneous Integrated N77 Full Band BAW Filter Based on Band-Stop TheoryInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: PunctuationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: What Went Wrong: Corona and the World after the Full StopCited 130 times
- Go sideways: PunctuationA closely related topic
- Go sideways: English punctuationA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩ (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
Noun A decisive end to something.
Noun A complete stop.
Interjection Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking to show something is not up for discussion or debate.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
What Went Wrong: Corona and the World after the Full Stop
Full Color Stop Bands in Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Block Copolymer Photonic Gels by Swelling−Freezing
The partial and full rubbing of a flywheel rotor–bearing–stop system
Life Came to a Full Stop: The Experiences of Widowed Fathers
One stop or full stop? The continuing challenges for researchers despite the new streamlined NHS research governance process
A Full Stop to Amnesty in Argentina
Can You Stop Surveillance After Radiofrequency Ablation of Barrett's Esophagus? A Glass Half Full
Nested sets theory, full stop: Explaining performance on Bayesian inference tasks without dual-systems assumptions
🆕 Influential since 2022
Compact and High Steep Skirts Hybrid Heterogeneous Integrated N77 Full Band BAW Filter Based on Band-Stop Theory
“One-stop” polymer circularly polarized luminescence platform: easy construction of full-color circularly polarized luminescent materials
International Law Rejects Immunity for International Crimes — Full Stop
There’s no “next stop,” only “full STEAM” ahead for humankind’s AI future!
THE TERM ‘KRAPKA’ (‘FULL STOP’ / ‘PERIOD’) IN THE DICHOTOMOUS DRAMA OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINIAN PUNCTUATION TERMINOLOGY
📚 Books worth reading
PunctuationAnita Ganeri · 2012
No full stops in IndiaMark Tully · 1991
Full stopJoan Smith · 1995
My Sister's a Full StopGretel Killeen, Maria Eppie · 2000
This Is Me, Full StopCaz Hildebrand, Philip Cowell · 2017- 📕Full StopJoan Smith · 2011
The Flash, Vol. 9Robert Venditti, Van Jensen · 2016- 📕The full stopGilroy Mitcham · 1957
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Punctuation Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. The oldest known examples…
- English punctuation Punctuation in the English language helps the reader to understand a sentence through visual means other than just the letters of the alphabet. English…
- Comma The comma , is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages. Some typefaces render it as a small line, slightly curved or…
- Decimal separator A decimal separator is a symbol that separates the integer part from the fractional part of a number written in decimal form. Different countries officially…
- Semicolon The semicolon ; (or semi-colon) is a symbol commonly used as orthographic punctuation. In the English language, a semicolon is most commonly used to link…
- Middle dot This page uses IPA notation for orthographic or other linguistic analysis. For the meaning of how ⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page.…
- Word divider In punctuation, a word divider is a glyph whose purpose is to separate words. In languages which use the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic scripts, as well as…
- Colon (punctuation) The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, or a quoted…