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Default what does an ellipsis do

An ellipsis is a mark to indicate a place in text where an elision was made.
That is to say, a part of the text was "knocked" from the text. The
three-dot mark along the text baseline insicates the place it once was. [fr.
Latin elidire-to knock].

An Ellipsis is a mark to indicate a place in text where an elision was made.
.... [fr. Latin elidire-to knock].

This is three periods: ...
This is an ellipsis: . It is ANSI/ASCII glyph 133

Irt is difficult to tell them apart in many fonts.


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