0 a situation in which words are left out of a sentence but the sentence can still be understood: --
An example of ellipsis is "What percentage was left?" "20." (= 20 percent)
1 three dots in a printed text that show where one or more words have been intentionally left out --
The rectus muscles serve as vascular carriers for large ellipses of lower abdominal skin and fat.
However, we will show that it is possible to compute the eigenvalues of mixtures of ellipses and cross-shape domains in the high aspect ratio limit.
The ellipses of the deutan subject were large, very elliptical, and horizontally oriented towards the deutan copunctal point.
The measured discrimination ellipses of each subject are shown in light gray.
In memoirs the silences and the ellipses are as instructive as the narrative.
The ellipses of all the planes combined results in a tube.
Samples studied in the present work are numbered and marked in ellipses.
Most of them are acknowledged in the text through ellipses.