Term used to describe three periods that are together (...). In English the ellipsis is often used as an indication to show any omitted word or other text. You'll often see an ellipsis in file names and commands on a computer to indicate the full file name or command is not being displayed. For example, a file named "Computer Hope" may be displayed as "Compute..." because the column the file name is being displayed in is not wide enough to display the full file name.
- Additional information about inserting a ellipsis into a word processor such as Microsoft Word can be found on document CH000886.
In computer programming a two (..) or three (...) ellipsis is often used to specify a range. For example, in the below Perl example "Hello World!" would be printed 20 times.
#!/usr/bin/perl
foreach (1...20) {
print "Hello World!\n";
}
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Also see: Keyboard definitions, Period, Programming definitions | |
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