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The ellipsis (/ ə ˈ l ɪ p s ɪ s /, plural ellipses; from Ancient Greek: ἔλλειψις, élleipsis, lit. ' leave out ' [1]), rendered ..., alternatively described as suspension points [2]: 19 /dots, points [2]: 19 /periods of ellipsis, or ellipsis points, [2]: 19 or colloquially, dot-dot-dot, [3] [4] is a punctuation mark consisting of a series of three dots.
Three dots (Freemasonry) describes the same symbol being used in Freemasonry for a different purpose; Dinkus, commonly represented as three asterisks (* * *) or three large dots ("bullets") (• • •), usually refers to a section break in written text; Ellipsis (... or . . . or U+2026 … HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS [style guides vary]), indicates ...
Ellipsis (linguistics), the omission from a clause of words otherwise syntactically required by remaining elements Verb phrase ellipsis , an elliptical construction in which a verb phrase has been left out (elided)
Although manual dot leaders are most often represented as a series of full stop characters, there are at least three Unicode characters dedicated to the representation of dot leaders. These are U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER (․), U+2025 TWO DOT LEADER (‥), and U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS (…), a three dot leader. [3]
Nominal ellipsis occurs with a limited set of determinatives in English (cardinal and ordinal numbers and possessive determiners), though it is much freer in other languages. The following examples illustrate nominal ellipsis with cardinal and ordinal numbers: Fred did three onerous tasks because Susan had done two onerous tasks.
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
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In manga, the ellipsis (i.e. three dots) is also used to express silence in a much more significant way than the mere absence of bubbles. This is specially seen when a character is supposed to say something, to indicate a stunned silence or when a sarcastic comment is expected by the reader.