ELLIPSIS (ellipses)

Pronunciation (US):

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: ellipses   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does ellipsis mean? 

• ELLIPSIS (noun)
  The noun ELLIPSIS has 1 sense:

1. omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

  Familiarity information: ELLIPSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELLIPSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

eclipsis; ellipsis

Hypernyms ("ellipsis" is a kind of...):

deletion; omission (any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases)

 Context examples 

A surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles.

(Ellipsoid, NCI Thesaurus)

If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, ellipses, and other geometrical terms, or by words of art drawn from music, needless here to repeat.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)