ellipsis

Meanings

Plural: ellipses

Noun

• 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.

Synonyms

dot dot dot, eclipsis, suspension dots, suspension points

Related Words

apostrophe, brace, bracket, Canada), 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