ellipsis

(noun)

a mark consisting of three periods, historically with spaces in between, before, and after them " . . . ", nowadays a single character " (used in printing to indicate an omission)

Related Terms

Examples of ellipsis in the following topics:

  • Summation Notation

    • For the summation of the sequence of consecutive integers from 1 to 100 one could use an addition expression involving an ellipsis to indicate the missing terms: $1+2+3+4+\dots + 99+100$.