Bullet (typography)
In
typography, a
bullet is a typographical symbol or
glyph used to introduce items in a list, like below:
It is most conveniently used in technical writing or reference works to introduce a series of related items. They may be short phrases or of paragraph length. The main point is that all need to be tied together under a general heading. Bulleted items, commonly called "bullets", are usually terminated with a
full stop.
In
computer programming, the
bullet corresponds to
Unicode character 0x2022.
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