Associations to the word «Ellipsis»

Wiktionary

ELLIPSIS, noun. (typography) A mark consisting of three periods, historically with spaces in between, before, and after them “   .   .   .   ”, nowadays a single character “…” Ellipses are used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible.
ELLIPSIS, noun. (grammar) (rhetoric) The omission of a grammatically required word or phrase that can be inferred.
ELLIPSIS, noun. (film) The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot.

Dictionary definition

ELLIPSIS, noun. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope