Question on oft used notation

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What does $(\cdot)$ mean? I have seen this used often, but don't know what it means and when it is used, and I want to make sure I'm not making incorrect assumptions. For example, I'm reading about copula functions in statistics. There is a function denoted as $c(F1(\cdot), F2(\cdot))$. So, how should this be read, in words?