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  2. Ellipsis - Wikipedia

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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, [not verified in body] [3] [4] is a punctuation mark consisting of a series of three dots.

  3. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Square lozenge ("Pillow") various Currency symbols † ‡ Dagger: Obelus: Footnotes, Latin cross – — Dash: Hyphen, Hyphen-minus, minus sign: Em dash, En dash ° Degree sign: Masculine ordinal indicator * * * Dinkus: Asterism, Fleuron, Dingbat (many) Dingbat: Dinkus, Fleuron ⌀ Diameter: Ø (Scandinavian orthography), Slashed zero; empty ...

  4. Ellipse - Wikipedia

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    An ellipse (red) obtained as the intersection of a cone with an inclined plane. Ellipse: notations Ellipses: examples with increasing eccentricity. In mathematics, an ellipse is a plane curve surrounding two focal points, such that for all points on the curve, the sum of the two distances to the focal points is a constant.

  5. Ellipsis (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    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)

  6. Three dots - Wikipedia

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    HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS [style guides vary]), indicates an intentional omission of a word Leader (typography) , may be represented with three dots or ellipses The letter S in Morse code

  7. Ellipsis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Verb phrase ellipsis (also VP-ellipsis or VPE) is a particularly frequent form of ellipsis in English. VP-ellipsis elides a non-finite VP. The ellipsis must be introduced by an auxiliary verb or by the particle to. John can play the guitar; Mary can play the guitar, too. He has done it before, which means he will do it again. An aspect of VP ...

  8. Descriptive notation - Wikipedia

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    Note the use of "Kt" for knight, and "Sq." (square) for the first rank. Each square has two names, depending on the viewpoint of White or Black. Each file is given a name corresponding to the piece that occupies the first rank at the start of the game. Thus, in English descriptive notation the queen's file is named "Q" and the king's file is ...

  9. Ellipses - Wikipedia

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    Ellipses is the plural form of two different English words: Ellipse, a type of conic section in geometry; Ellipsis, a three-dot punctuation mark (...) Ellipses may also refer to: Ellipses, a French publication under the direction of Aymeric Chauprade