ellipsis
noun/ɪˈlɪpsɪs/
Frequency rank: #19,332 most common English word
Meaning
The omission of words from a sentence, or the punctuation mark (…) used to indicate such an omission.
Example sentence
The editor used ellipsis to show that some words had been removed from the original quote.
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