ellipsis
el·lip·sis
noun
1.
omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
Origin
Unadapted borrowing from Latin ellīpsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “omission”). Doublet of ellipse.
Phrases
- curly brackets
- exclamation mark
- fraction slash
- full stop
- parentheses (US
- question mark
- square bracket
- vertical ellipsis
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Broader terms
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