dotted

From dot + -ed.

• (General American) enPR: dŏtʹĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑtɪd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒtɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɒtɪd

dotted

1. simple past and past participle of dot

dotted (comparative more dotted, superlative most dotted)

1. (of a line) Made up of a series of dots.

   Please print your name and address clearly on the dotted line.

2. (usually computing) That contains dots.
   • 2012, Barry A. Burd, Michael Burton, Donn Felker, Java and Android Application Development For Dummies eBook Set‎^[1]:

     The dotted name java.util.Scanner is the fully qualified name of the Scanner class.

3. (music, of notes and rests) With a dot after, increasing the value of the duration by half of the basic note.
4. (figurative) Covered with irregularly scattered objects.
   • 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter XI, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 107:

     The woods filtered men and the fields became dotted.

• dashed
• dash-dotted