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Once in numeric and special characters layout, long press . key to insert an ellipsis. This is a single symbol without spaces in between the three dots ( …). In Chinese and sometimes in Japanese, ellipsis characters are made by entering two consecutive horizontal ellipses, each with Unicode code point U+2026. In vertical texts, the ...
In SGML, HTML and XML documents, the logical constructs known as character data and attribute values consist of sequences of characters, in which each character can manifest directly (representing itself), or can be represented by a series of characters called a character reference, of which there are two types: a numeric character reference and a character entity reference.
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)
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
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)
Leader (typography), may be represented with three dots or ellipses; The letter S in Morse code; Therefore sign (U+2234 ∴ THEREFORE), a shorthand form of the word "therefore" or "thus" * In Japanese maps, the same symbol (∴) indicates an historic site. U+20DB ⃛ COMBINING THREE DOTS ABOVE character is a combining diacritical mark for symbols.
Answer ellipsis involves question-answer pairs. The question focuses on an unknown piece of information, often using an interrogative word (e.g., who, what, when etc.). The corresponding answer provides the missing information and in so doing, the redundant information that appeared in the question is elided, e.g.: Q: Who has been hiding the truth?
Two Dots (game), a puzzle game for Android and IOS; Leader (typography) Row of dots used in tables of contents (usually more than two) Ellipsis (computer programming), a notation (two or three dots) is used to denote programming ranges, an unspecified number of arguments; A parent directory in a relative path; A second derivative in Newton's ...