Ellipsis vs Eclipsis - What's the difference?
ellipsis | eclipsis |
(typography) A mark consisting of three periods, historically with spaces in between, before, and after them “ . . . ”, nowadays a single character “” Ellipses are used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible.
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(grammar, rhetoric) The omission of a grammatically required word or phrase that can be inferred.
(film) The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot.
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(obsolete) An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase
A line or dash used to show that text has been omitted
(Irish grammar) A mutation of the initial sound of a word by which voiceless sounds become voiced, voiced stops become nasal consonants, and vowels acquire a prothetic nasal consonant: see .
As nouns the difference between ellipsis and eclipsis
is that ellipsis is (typography) a mark consisting of three periods, historically with spaces in between, before, and after them “ ”, nowadays a single character “” ellipses are used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible while eclipsis is (obsolete) an omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase.ellipsis
English
(wikipedia ellipsis)Noun
(ellipses) {{examples-right, sense=grammar, examples= * He is faster than she. (Here, a trailing “is fast” is omitted, grammatically required, and implied.) * She went home, so I did, too.'' (''Did stands for “went home”.) }}Girls with Slingshots: 114
- CARD: Hey Baby. Thanks for the … last night. Love you!
- HAZEL: Wow. I’ve never despised an ellipsis so much in my life.
The 1910s: 219
- It was now possible for writers and directors to cut scenes that did not further the plot; called "ellipses " by filmmakers.