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U+2026,…
HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS

[U+2025]
General Punctuation
[U+2027]
Character variations

U+FE19,︙
PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
[unassigned: U+FE1A–U+FE1F]

[U+FE18]
Vertical Forms◌︠
[U+FE20]

Translingual

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(English nameellipsis)

  1. Indicates apause.
  2. Indicates anomission.
    One critic described the novel as "not the greatest he has written, but... perhaps the most memorable".
  3. Indicatestrailing off at the end of asentence.
  4. (Internetslang, text messaging) Aresponse used to express being at a loss for words, such as due toannoyance,shock, orconfusion.
    You're 35, you still live with your mother, you have no job, no hope, no prospects, what's the point of even going on?
  5. (text messaging, dated) Separates different ideas or messages within the sametext message. (In modern usage, multiple messages would be sent instead.)[1]
    Boomer ellipses
  6. (computing) Indicates that a computercommand will request further information, typically by opening adialog box.
    Save as...
    Find and replace...
  7. (chiefly advertising, dated) Links loosely relatedclauses and surroundsparentheticals in the manner of thecomma,semicolon orem dash
    • 1944,advert for the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps inLife magazine, Volume 16, Number 4 (page 31)
      Free training... with pay... in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps
    • 1944, McGraw-Hill,Engineering and Mining Journal, volume145 (in English), page54:
      A relieved world then will eagerly turn to the task of reclaiming the destruction wrought by Mars... A tremendous task, filled with infinite possibilities... A profitable task, according to how well you are prepared to do your part in the rehabilitation
    • 1951,advert for IBM inFortune magazine, volume 44 number 6, December 1951, page 55.
      Thousands of IBM business machines... critical to our nation's defense... are at work for science, industry, and the armed forces
    • 1973,advert for MIT calculators inRadio-Electronics, January issue, page 15
      Adds...subtracts...multiplies...divides...instantly & electronically!
  8. (chess) Inalgebraic notation:Preceding a move made byBlack, unlessWhite's previous move is given on the same line.
    • 2023 January 13,Leonard Barden, “Chess: Carlsen takes on young guns at Wijk as world champion eyes record”, inThe Guardian[3] (in English), archived fromthe original on23 January 2023:
      1...Qd3 2 Ne1 Nd2! wins since 3 Nxd3 Rxf1 mate while 3 Qxc7+ Kg6 only delays the end.
  9. (typography) May be, or form part of, aleader: a series of dots used as a visual aid to connect items in lists, such as chapter headers to page numbers in a table of contents.

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  1. (mathematics) In a sequence of numbers, omits numbers, when thepattern to be followed is clear.
    1, 2, 3,..., 1000
    1 + 2 + 3 +... + 100
  2. (mathematics) Indicates that an indefinite sequence of digits of anirrational number follows.
    The square root of 2 is 1.4142135623730950488
  3. See... for the Morse code letter "S".

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  1. ^https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/what-is-boomer-ellipses-gen-z-calls-out-older-generation-for-their-texting-habits-101720595111794.html

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  1. See…….
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