ellipsis

Plural: ellipses

Noun

• Omission of words from text, often marked by three dots (...).
• omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
• A mark consisting of multiple full stops (with or without spaces), used to indicate omitted, missing, or illegible words; or (in mathematics) that a pattern continues.
• The omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context.
• The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot.
• An ellipse.

Examples

• The ellipsis in 0.333... means that the number is a repeating decimal, having threes that go on forever.
• The ellipsis in 1, 2, 3, ..., 8, 9 means that the numbers 4, 5, 6, and 7 are not explicitly included, but are considered to be part of the pattern.
• The ELLIPSIS in his opponent’s thought process suggested they were struggling to find a word.

Synonyms

eclipsis, dot dot dot, suspension dots, suspension points

Related Words

Canada), apostrophe, brace, bracket, colon, comma, curly brackets, dash, eclipsis, ecthlipsis, elliptical, elliptically, exclamation mark, fraction slash, full stop, guillemet, hyphen, interpunct, interrobang, parentheses (US, period, question mark, quotation marks, semicolon, slash, space, square bracket, stroke