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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.
The ellipsis was adopted into Japanese from European languages. The ellipsis is often three dots or six dots (in two groups of three dots), though variations in number of dots exist. The dots can be either on the baseline or centred between the baseline and the ascender when horizontal; the dots are centred horizontally when vertical. Other uses:
95 characters; the 52 alphabet characters belong to the Latin script. The remaining 43 belong to the common script. The 33 characters classified as ASCII Punctuation & Symbols are also sometimes referred to as ASCII special characters. Often only these characters (and not other Unicode punctuation) are what is meant when an organization says a ...
A line of dots corresponding to one half of a Japanese ellipsis also used as an ellipsis informally ‥ 2145: 1-1-37: 2025: tensen (点線, "dot line") niten leader (二点リーダ, "two-dot leader") Rarely used [clarification needed] • ﹅ ﹆ 1-3-32, 1-3-31--2022, 25E6, FE45, FE46: bōten (傍点, "side dot") wakiten (脇点, "side dot ...
So is there a four dot ellipsis or not? -- ayteebee 16:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC) No, there is not a four dot ellipsis. There would be three dots for the ellipsis and a period. I might suggest there could be a space between the last elliptical dot and the period.68.189.218.104 11:45, 30 September 2007 (UTC) Yes, according to several style ...
U+20DB ⃛ COMBINING THREE DOTS ABOVE character is a combining diacritical mark for symbols. When used after U+0020 SPACE, it is used in mathematical notations (and represented with the "tdot" or "TripleDot" entities in HTML 5.0 and MathML 3.0) In music notation, a triple-dotted note is a note with three dots written after it
Hot Shot Liquors in Loris. Liquor stores around South Carolina have signs with red dots. This practice dates back to the 1940s. Oct. 21, 2023.
Per MOS:ELLIPSIS, three unspaced dots (...) should generally be used for ellipsis; this template is intended for specialized usage. This template can be substituted to directly insert the referenced character. The first parameter determines the template's display; with no parameters, it renders as three periods.