eclipsis

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase.
  2. Noun.  A line or dash used to show that text has been omitted.
  3. Noun.  ''(Irish grammar)'' The suppression of the sounds of certain radical consonants in place of others.

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