Ellipsis (plural ellipses; frae the Ancient Greek: ἔλλειψις, élleipsis, "omission" or "fawin short") is a series o dots that uisually indicates an intentional omission o a wird, sentence, or whole section frae a text wioot alterin its oreeginal meanin.[1] Dependin on thair context and placement in a sentence, ellipses can an aa indicate an unfinished thocht, a leadin statement, a slicht pause, a mysterious, echoin vyce, or a nervous or awkward silence. Aposiopesis is the use of an ellipsis tae trail off intae silence—for example: "But I thocht he wis . . ." When placed at the beginnin or end o a sentence, the ellipsis can an aa inspire a feelin o melancholy or langin.

Ellipsis
. . .
Precomposed ellipsis Spaced 3 periods Mid-line ellipsis
Punctuation
apostrophe  '
brackets [ ]  ( )  { }  ⟨ ⟩
colon :
comma ,  ،  
dash ‒  –  —  ―
ellipsis  ...      
exclamation merk !
full stap, period .
guillemets ‹ ›  « »
hyphen
hyphen-minus -
quaisten merk ?
quotation merks ‘ ’  “ ”  ' '  " "
semicolon ;
slash, stroke, solidus /    
Wird dividers
interpunct ·
space     
General teepografie
ampersand &
asterisk *
at sign @
backslash \
basis pynt
bullet
caret ^
dagger † ‡ ⹋
degree °
ditto merk
equals sign =
invertit exclamation merk ¡
invertit quaisten merk ¿
komejirushi, kome, reference mark
multiplication sign ×
number sign, pound, hash #
numero sign
obelus ÷
ordinal indicator º ª
percent, per mil % ‰
pilcrow
plus, minus + −
plus-minus, minus-plus ± ∓
prime    
section sign §
tilde ~
unnerscore, unnerstrike _
vertical bar, pipe, broken bar |    ¦
Intellectual property
copyricht ©
copyleft 🄯
soond-recordin copyricht
registered tredmerk ®
service merk
tredmerk
Currency
currency sign ¤

؋฿¢$֏ƒ£元 圆 圓 ¥

Uncommon teepografie
asterism
fleuron, hedera
index, fist
interrobang
irony punctuation
lozenger
tie
Relatit
In ither scripts
Wiktionar
Wiktionar
Rake fer Ellipsis i the
Scots Wiktionar, the free Scots dictionar.

References

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