ellipsis

Significado (Inglés)

1. (countable, uncountable) A mark consisting of multiple full stops (with or without spaces), used to indicate omitted, missing, or illegible words; or (in mathematics) that a pattern continues.
2. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) The omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context.
3. (countable, uncountable) The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) An ellipse.

Conceptos

elipsis

puntos suspensivos

elipse

Sinónimos

eclipsis

ellipse

deletion

omission

suspension points

marks of omission

abbreviation

dot dot dot

apostrophe

dots

dotted line

jump cut

Traducciones

points de suspension

ellipse

Ellipse

reticências

ellissi

beletselteken

Auslassungspunkte

üç nokta

ellips

el·lipsi

elipse

έλλειψη

weglating

punti di sospensione

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɪˈlɪpsɪs/

Etimología (Inglés)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ellīpsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “omission”). Doublet of ellipse.