Usually means: Omission of words, still understood.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word ellipsis:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ellipsis: Merriam-Webster
  2. ellipsis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ellipsis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ellipsis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ellipsis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ellipsis, ellipsis: Wordnik
  7. ellipsis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ellipsis: Wiktionary
  9. ellipsis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ellipsis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ellipsis: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ellipsis: Dictionary.com
  13. ellipsis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Ellipsis (Biffy Clyro album), Ellipsis (computer programming), Ellipsis (disambiguation), Ellipsis (linguistics), Ellipsis (narrative device), Ellipsis (programming operator), Ellipsis (rhetoric), Ellipsis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ellipsis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ellipsis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ellipsis: Rhymezone
  18. Ellipsis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ellipsis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. ellipsis: FreeDictionary.org
  21. ellipsis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. ellipsis: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. ellipsis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ellipsis: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  3. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  4. Ellipsis: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ellipsis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ellipsis: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ellipsis: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ellipsis: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ellipsis: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (grammar, rhetoric) The omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context.
▸ noun:  (film) The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, geometry) An ellipse.

Similar:
eclipsis, space dot, punctuation space, iteration mark, middle dot, decimal point, interpunct, emdash, compound symbol, punctuation mark, more...

Opposite:
period, full stop

Types:
three dots, trailing off, dot dot dot, more...

Phrases:
ellipsis points, ellipsis threesome, ellipsis units, more...

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syntactic, such, subject, semi, verbal, second, grammatical, temporal, clausal, nominal, similar

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Similar:
eclipsis, space dot, punctuation space, iteration mark, middle dot, decimal point, interpunct, emdash, compound symbol, punctuation mark, more...

Opposite:
period, full stop

Types:
three dots, trailing off, dot dot dot, more...

Phrases:
ellipsis points, ellipsis threesome, ellipsis units, more...

Adjectives:
syntactic, such, subject, semi, verbal, second, grammatical, temporal, clausal, nominal, similar

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     black,     white,     charcoal, more...



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