Marked with a dot or dots; spotted: as. a dotted pattern, the dotted i.

Consisting of dots, as, a dotted line.

adjective. Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects.

adjective. a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes.

adjective. a rest lengthened by a dot in the same manner as a dotted note.

verb. Simple past tense and past participle of dot.

adjective. Of a line, made up of a series of dots.

adjective. having gaps or spaces

adjective. having a pattern of dots

"When a user types an address, such as telegraph.co.uk, the request is first sent to a DNS server which translates the human-readable address into a computer-readable one known as a "dotted quad"."