Soft dot: Half-tone dot with soft halation or fringe around it, AS oppsed to a hard dot which is very sharp and without fringe.

软点：有着淡色晕光或边缘的半色调点子。有别于十分清晰，并无淡边的硬点。

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Every directory on the filesystem has a name (a hard link) of dot.

文件系统上每一个目录都有一个点的名称(一个硬链接)。

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Since it is really hard to explain your visions to someone, I assume Kandinsky was a synaesthete." The striking colour contrast with the red dot is also familiar to her.

和别人解释自己的视觉很困难，我认为Kandinsky就是联觉者”对她来讲红点造成的惊人颜色对比也是很熟悉的。

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It's hard to determine when to short a dot-com stock with no earnings to decelerate.

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While the dot-com meltdown hit RLX hard, its blades are getting popular with research outfits like Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Eventually the conference plumped for - dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot - a signal that is hard to mistake for anything else in the world of morse.

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