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' 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. An ellipsis can be used in many ways, such as for intentional omission of text or numbers ...
An ellipsis at the end of a sentence with no sentence following should be followed by a period (for a total of four dots). However, there is such a thing as a four-dot ellipsis. A four-dot ellipsis is required for the removal of more than one word. So is there a four dot ellipsis or not? -- ayteebee 16:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
I think the article should use 3 dot ellipsis (to be consistent with the article on ellipsis) but comment on the frequent appearance of 4 dot ellipsis. --Walter Siegmund 17:26, 22 January 2006 (UTC) It is four dots. Watch the film - the credits at the beginning and end give the title consistently with four dots, and that's really the only ...
According to the “invisible grammarian” McCulloch says Boomers still have in mind, the proper way to bring together informal thoughts is with an ellipsis. “The dot-dot-dot is trying to be ...
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)
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; The rest operator in JavaScript; the splat operator in PHP; Three Dots Tattoo, a prison tattoo in North ...
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