dash-dotted

adjective

Made up of a series of alternating dashes and dots.

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Meanings

adjectivedash-dotted (comparative more dash-dotted, superlative most dash-dotted)

comparative more dash-dotted · superlative most dash-dotted

  1. Made up of a series of alternating dashes and dots.

    For equal weights on the output gap and inflation (μ=1, depicted via dash-dotted lines), the policy rate decreases slightly, but the output gap rises and the inflation rate falls.

    2023, Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, and Ji Zhang, The Four-Equation New Keynesian Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics 105(4), pp. 931--947

Origin

From dash + dot + -ed.

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APA

dash-dotted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dash-dotted

MLA

“dash-dotted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dash-dotted. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dash-dotted,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dash-dotted.

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