The most common forms of an ellipsis include a row of three periods (i.e., dots or full points), as characters ... or as a precomposed triple-dot glyph, the horizontal ellipsis ….
Style guides often … See more

In her book on the ellipsis, Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission, Anne Toner suggests that the first use of the punctuation in the English language dates to a 1588 … See more

An ellipsis is used in mathematics to mean "and so forth"; usually indicating the omission of terms that follow an obvious pattern as indicated … See more

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An ellipsis is sometimes used as the label for a button to access user interface that has been omitted – probably due to space limitations – particularly in mobile apps running on small screen devices. This may be described as a … See more

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The Chicago Manual of Style suggests the use of an ellipsis for any omitted word, phrase, line, or … See more

Some programming languages use ellipsis to indicate a range or for a variable argument list.
The CSS text-overflow property can be set to ellipsis, which cuts off text with an ellipsis when it overflows the content area. See more

In text-based communications, the ellipsis may indicate:
• Floor holding, signal that more is to come, for instance when people break up longer turns in chat. See more