Spheroid vs Ellipsis - What's the difference?
spheroid | ellipsis |
A solid of revolution generated by rotating an ellipse about its major (prolate), or minor (oblate) axis.
(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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As nouns the difference between spheroid and ellipsis
is that spheroid is a solid of revolution generated by rotating an ellipse about its major (prolate), or minor (oblate) axis while 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.As an adjective spheroid
is of a shape similar to a squashed sphere.spheroid
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(wikipedia spheroid)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- UFOs are reported as being either oblate (saucer-shaped) or prolate (cigar-shaped) spheroids .
ellipsis
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(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.