ELLIPSIS
ellipsis, eclipsis
(noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ellipsis (countable and uncountable, plural ellipses)
(typography) A mark consisting of (in English) three periods, historically or more formally with spaces in between, before, and after them “ . . . ”, or more recently a single character “…” Ellipses are used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible.
Synonym: dot dot dot
(grammar, rhetoric) The omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context.
(film) The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot.
(obsolete, geometry) An ellipse.
Source: Wiktionary
El*lip"sis, n.; pl. Ellipses. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. In, and Loan, and
cf. Ellipse.]
1. (Gram.)
Definition: Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which
are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for,
the virtues which I admire.
2. (Geom.)
Definition: An ellipse. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition