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elipsis

Pronunciation: /e.ˈlɪp.sɪs/

“elipsis” is an Indonesian word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a mark consisting of (in English) three periods, historically or more formally with spaces in between, before, and after them, " . . . ", or, more recently, a single character, "…", used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible, or (in mathematics) that a pattern continues (e.g., 1, ..., 4 means 1, 2, 3, 4)
  2. the omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ellipsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “omission”).

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