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Unadapted borrowing from Latin ellipsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “omission”). Doublet of ellipse.

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɪpsɪs/

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ellipsis (countable and uncountable, plural ellipses)

1. (typography, mathematics) 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.

   Synonyms: (colloquial) dot dot dot, suspension dots, suspension points

   The ellipsis in 1, 2, 3, ..., 7, 8 means that the numbers 4, 5, and 6 are not explicitly included, but are considered to be a part of the pattern.

   The ellipsis in 0.333... means that the number is a repeating decimal, having threes that go on forever.

   • 2006, Danielle Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots: 114‎^[1]:

     CARD: Hey Baby. Thanks for the … last night. Love you!
     HAZEL: Wow. I've never despised an ellipsis so much in my life.

3. (grammar, rhetoric) The omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context.
4. (film) The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot.
   • 2002, David Blanke, The 1910s: 219‎^[2]:

     It was now possible for writers and directors to cut scenes that did not further the plot; called "ellipses" by filmmakers.

5. (obsolete, geometry) An ellipse.

• vertical ellipsis
• ellipsization

• elliptical
• elliptically

• eclipsis
• ecthlipsis

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From Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “omission”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /elˈliːp.sis/, [ɛlˈlʲiːps̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /elˈlip.sis/, [elˈlipsis]

ellīpsis f (genitive ellīpsis); third declension

1. ellipsis
2. ellipse
   • 1644, René Descartes, Principia philosophiae:

     Unde sequitur ambitum ABCD non esse circulum perfectum, sed magis ad ellipsis figuram accedere

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Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• “ellipsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ellipsis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.