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And it will be the first mark of an ellipsis into the future.

But Grant was not a man for the usual political ellipsis.

I felt as if my four years under arms had merely been time lost, an ellipsis, another area of forgotten life.

An ellipsis is also often used in mathematics to mean "and so forth".

An ellipsis in narrative leaves out a portion of the story.

They also go in an odd ellipsis direction instead of a circle.

The paperwork and the pictures formed a life in ellipsis.

In other words, there is no ellipsis in such cases.

An ellipsis is sometimes used to show a pause in speech or an unfinished thought.

The discussion below takes their status as ellipsis largely for granted.

There are many related uses of the ellipsis in set notation.

"Our commitment to a free Iraq must end with an exclamation point, not an ellipsis."

The band state that the use of ellipsis "both continues and separates a thought."

The examples so far all have the ellipsis following its antecedent.

If the program is running, there isn't an ellipsis on the icon.

The ellipsis is used as an operator in some programming languages.

Bill thought he heard a stifled sob in the second ellipsis.

It seemed to be two dots, like an incomplete ellipsis, except that they were up and down instead of across.

"Then you must have seen the ellipsis," she said.

The code (meaning ellipsis) appears only at the end of an argument list.

The Ellipsis concept car, released just two years prior to his death, is still very fresh and modern.

There is also a nationally recognized literary journal known as Ellipsis.

Various examples are given in the article on Ellipsis.

For more analysis and further examples, see Verb phrase ellipsis.

What does it say about you if you are excessive in your use of the ellipsis?