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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ellipsis \El*lip"sis\ ([e^]l*l[i^]p"s[i^]s), n.; pl. Ellipses ([e^]l*l[i^]p"s[=e]z). [L., fr. Gr. 'e`lleipsis a leaving, defect, fr. 'ellei`pein to leave in, fall short; 'en in + lei`pein to leave. See In, and Loan, and cf. Ellipse.]
(Gram.) Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire.
(Geom.) An ellipse. [Obs.]
(Printing) a printing symbol, usually three periods in a row (. . .), indicating the omission of some part of a text; -- used commonly in quotations, so as to suppress words not essential to the meaning. A long dash (
---) and three asterisks (* * *) are sometimes used with the same meaning.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "an ellipse," from Latin ellipsis, from Greek elleipsis "a falling short, defect, ellipse in grammar," noun of action from elleipein "to fall short, leave out," from en- "in" (see en- (1)) + leipein "to leave" (see relinquish). Grammatical sense in English first recorded 1610s. Related: Elipticity.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context typography English) A mark consisting of three periods, historically with spaces in between, before, and after them “ . . . ”, nowadays a single character “…” Ellipses are used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible. 2 (context grammar rhetoric English) The omission of a grammatically required word or phrase that can be inferred. 3 (context film English) The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Ellipsis (plural ellipses; from the , élleipsis, "omission" or "falling short") is a series of dots (typically three, such as "…") that usually indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without altering its original meaning.
In linguistics, ellipsis (from the , élleipsis, "omission") or elliptical construction refers to the omission from a clause of one or more words that are nevertheless understood in the context of the remaining elements. There are numerous distinct types of ellipsis acknowledged in theoretical syntax. This article provides an overview of them. Theoretical accounts of ellipsis can vary greatly depending in part upon whether a constituency-based or a dependency-based theory of syntactic structure is pursued.
Ellipsis, often represented in text as "...", 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. The vast majority of films use ellipses to clear actions that add nothing to the narrative. Beyond these "convenience" ellipses, ellipses are also used to advance the story.
Ellipsis is a mark or series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of a word or a phrase from the original text.
Ellipsis may also refer to:
- Ellipsis (Biffy Clyro album), an album by Biffy Clyro
- Ellipsis (Scorn album), an album by Scorn
- Ellipsis (linguistics), the omission from a clause of one or more words that would otherwise be required by the remaining elements
- Ellipsis (narrative device), the narrative device of omitting a portion of the sequence of events
- Ellipsis (programming operator), a computer language token usually indicating a range of values
- Ellipsis London, a former book publishing company in London, England
- Verb phrase ellipsis, an elliptical construction in which a verb phrase has been left out (elided)
Ellipsis is an album by Scorn, originally released in 1995 on Earache Records. It was remastered along with Evanescence and released as a two disc set in 2009.
In computer programming, ellipsis notation (.. or ...) is used to denote ranges, or an unspecified number of arguments. Most programming languages other than Perl6 require the ellipsis to be written as a series of periods; a single ( Unicode) ellipsis character cannot be used.
Ellipsis is the seventh studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Biffy Clyro. It was produced by Rich Costey and released on 8 July 2016.
Usage examples of "ellipsis".
An adjoining peduncle described during the same time similar, though fewer, ellipses.
As will be seen, it was full of ellipses and was fragmentary in its character, though completely effective in fact: Know all men by these Presents, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
On the next day it circumnutated in a greater degree, describing four irregular ellipses, and by 3 P.
Although the main petiole is continually and rapidly describing small ellipses during the day, yet after the great nocturnal rising movement has commenced, if dots are made every 2 or 3 minutes, as was done for an hour between 9.
In several other cases, for instance, when a leaf after describing during the day one or more fairly regular ellipses, zigzags much in the evening, it appears as if energy was being expended, so that the great evening rise or fall might coincide with the period of the day proper for this movement.
The most complex of all the movements performed by sleeping plants, is that when leaves or leaflets, after describing in the daytime several vertically directed ellipses, rotate greatly on their axes in the evening, by which twisting movement they occupy a wholly different position at night to what they do during the day.
But if so, it must be assumed that a bright lateral light completely stops circumnutation, for a plant thus exposed moves in a straight line towards it, without describing any ellipses or circles.
It returned also in a zigzag line, and then circumnutated regularly, describing three large ellipses during the remainder of the day.
There can be little doubt that it would ultimately have become upright by describing an additional number of irregular ellipses, one above the other.
A thousand Ouster angels, some of them armed with low-yield energy weapons or recoilless rifles, opened forcefield wings and flew toward the distant Pax ships in long, tacking ellipses along the crest of the solar wind.
Kundera resorts to ellipsis precisely in order to preserve the architectonic lightness and balance of such narrative and discursive complexity.
The main petiole of a leaf having been secured to a stick, close to the base of the subpetiole of the terminal leaflet, the latter described two small ellipses between 10.
The direction of the longer axes of the ellipses made during the same day or on successive days generally changed completely, so as to stand at right angles to one another.
Sebastian Cabot Mappamundi of 1544 is an engraved map drawn in one ellipsis on the Bordone projection.
Her incomplete sentence was evidently an ellipsis, and that meant that something significant had been omitted for his consideration.