Can anyone tell me the name of the three dots used in writing. For instance... (this is what I'm referring to

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I'm trying to edit a document that has the following: the meeting was held on January 10............. all activites recorded.
I'm trying to prove that the writer is incorrect when using more that three ...
I hope someone can help me. Thank you.

Answer 1

Ellipsis in English
The Chicago Manual of Style suggests the use of an ellipsis (also known as an ellipse)[citation needed] for any omitted word, phrase, line or paragraph from within a quoted passage. There are two commonly used methods of using ellipses: one uses three dots for any omission, the second makes a distinction between omissions within a sentence (using three dots: ...) and omissions between sentences (using a period and a space followed by three nonbreaking-spaced dots: . . . .). Therefore, there is no such thing as a "four-dot ellipsis." A period followed by an ellipsis may look like four dots, but they are two separate entities.

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Can anyone tell me the name of the three dots used in writing. For instance... (this is what I'm referring to
I'm trying to edit a document that has the following: the meeting was held on January 10............. all activites recorded.
I'm trying to prove that the writer is incorrect when using more that three ...
I hope someone can help me. Thank you.

Answer 3

Ellipses

Indicate, by three spaced points, omission of words or sentences within quoted matter: Equipped by education to rule in the nineteenth century, … he lived and reigned in Russia in the twentieth century.—Robert K. Massie
Indicate, by four spaced points, omission of words at the end of a sentence: The timidity of bureaucrats when it comes to dealing with … abuses is easy to explain. …—New York
Indicate, when extended the length of a line, omission of one or more lines of poetry:
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean—roll!
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Man marks the earth with ruin—his control
Stops with the shore.—Lord Byron

Are sometimes used as a device, as for example, in advertising copy:
To help you Move and Grow
with the Rigors of
Business in the 1980s …
and Beyond.—Journal of Business Strategy

Answer 4

Those dots................. after anything can mean anything It just tells you that there is more to the sentence. Like the one you posted, January 10............... could be 2007.

Answer 5

it's called an ellipsis

Answer 6

ellipsis -

Printing. a mark or marks as ——, …, or * * *, to indicate an omission or suppression of letters or words.