ELLIPSIS

ellipsis, eclipsis

(noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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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

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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

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