a group of dots, usually three, used in written material to indicate the omission of a word or words
suspension points in American English
plural noun
Printing
a series of periods used as an ellipsis
Also called: breaks
Word origin
[1915–20]This word is first recorded in the period 1915–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: decoder, markup, neorealism, soviet, supernationalism