ellipsis

1. N-UNCOUNT In linguistics, ellipsis means leaving out words rather than repeating them unnecessarily; for example, saying "I want to go but I can't" instead of "I want to go but I can't go." (語言學(xué)中的)省略[技術(shù)]

2. N-UNCOUNT a sequence of three dots (…) indicating an omission in text 省略號(hào)[printing]