ellipsis
- n omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
- Their orbit is a vast ellipsis swinging beyond even Jupiter, and along its path race hunks of stone, iron and other minerals.
- At this crack at Tom Dewey's campaign of quotation by ellipsis, Franklin Roosevelt got a tremendous hand.
- The researchers' log reads, in chilling ellipsis: "Family of three drive by, stop.