Definitions for ellipsis

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ellipsis el·lip·sis

Spelling: [ih-lip-sis]

IPA: /ɪˈlɪp sɪs/

Ellipsis is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in ellipsis (eiillpss).

Definitions for ellipsis

noun

1. Grammar. the omission from a sentence or other construction of one or more words that would complete or clarify the construction, as the omission of who are, while I am, or while we are from I like to interview people sitting down. the omission of one or more items from a construction in order to avoid repeating the identical or equivalent items that are in a preceding or following construction, as the omission of been to Paris from the second clause of I've been to Paris, but they haven't.
2. Printing. a mark or marks as ——, …, or * * *, to indicate an omission or suppression of letters or words.

Origin of ellipsis

1560-70; Latin ellīpsis Greek élleipsis an omission, equivalent to el- (variant of en- en-²) + leip- (stem of leípein to leave) + -sis -s

Examples for ellipsis

What is pleonasm in a single sentence is ellipsis in a double one.

It's no good having an ellipsis, if they don't keep it clean.

But I noticed that when you quoted this section on page 116, you left “general welfare” out and put an ellipsis in its place.

An oval is never mistaken for a circle, nor an hyperbola for an ellipsis.

It does not appear to be an ellipsis and has thus been removed.

"As soon as I've seen—" and a significant nod supplied the ellipsis.

An ellipsis or omission of words is found in all kinds of composition.

Soccer is one of the relatively few English experiments in ellipsis.

He left the ellipsis to be filled in by the corpulent blackguard's intelligence.

Supply the ellipsis, and we have, "Whether he is there or no there."