ellipses

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Figure 255 will serve also to call attention to another serious circumstance, which is, that although the ellipses are alike, the wheels are not; nor can they be made so if there be an even number of teeth, for the obvious reason that a tooth upon one wheel must fit into a space on the other; and since in the first wheel,

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  1. noun The omission of a word or phrase necessary for a complete syntactical construction but not necessary for understanding.
  2. noun An example of such omission.
  3. noun A mark or series of marks ( . . . or * * * , for example) used in writing or printing to indicate an omission, especially of letters or words.

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  • There were words merged in with the swirls and ellipses, ancient words from the first, grand days of Wozur's interstellar explorations. —  AnalogSFF,Jan/Feb2004
  • The ellipses, the delays, the questions and the repetitions have to be lavish, if movement is desired, and all that in itself is very ugly I am perhaps blinding myself, but I think that I am now writing something very quick and easy to play. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • When Kepler first discovered that the shape of orbits were ellipses, his writings show that he was clearly having religious experiences about this. —  Rochester City Newspaper
  • Fig. S2; in addition to the (true) tidal ellipses, the tracks also show a residual flow to the NW. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Those ellipses, all they are omitting are more repetitions of the title. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
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