ELLIPSIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: ellipses   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

Synonyms:

eclipsis; ellipsis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("ellipsis" is a kind of...):

deletion; omission (any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases)

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