ellipsis, eclipsis
(noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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
20 April 2025
(noun) food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
