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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 , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] is a ...

  3. Ellipsis (narrative device) - Wikipedia

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    Ellipsis is the narrative device of omitting a portion of the sequence of events, allowing the reader to fill in the narrative gaps. Aside from its literary use, the ellipsis has a counterpart in film production. It is there to suggest an action by simply showing what happens before and after what is observed.

  4. Ellipse - Wikipedia

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    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. It generalizes a circle, which is the special type of ellipse in which the two focal points are the same.

  5. Ellipsis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Nominal ellipsis occurs with a limited set of determinatives in English (cardinal and ordinal numbers and possessive determiners), though it is much freer in other languages. The following examples illustrate nominal ellipsis with cardinal and ordinal numbers: Fred did three onerous tasks because Susan had done two onerous tasks.

  6. Semi-major and semi-minor axes - Wikipedia

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    The orbiting body's path around the barycenter and its path relative to its primary are both ellipses. [1] The semi-major axis is sometimes used in astronomy as the primary-to-secondary distance when the mass ratio of the primary to the secondary is significantly large ( M ≫ m {\displaystyle M\gg m} ); thus, the orbital parameters of the ...

  7. Verb phrase ellipsis - Wikipedia

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    As seen in the examples above, VP ellipsis can be used to avoid redundancy in language. For example, "I like Linda's cookies, and Rebecca does too" is a much more concise sentence than "I like Linda's cookies, and Rebecca likes Linda's cookies too." VP ellipsis acts as a mechanism of grammatical reduction and contributes to clarity in language ...

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  9. Elliptical distribution - Wikipedia

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    Examples include the following multivariate probability distributions: ... is an ellipse or a union of ellipses (hence the name elliptical distribution).