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Horizontal ellipsis
Indicates omitted words in a quotation or a sentence that trails off… As a single character it keeps the three dots evenly spaced and prevents them from breaking across a line ending, which can happen when you type three separate periods. Most styles set a space on each side when words are omitted mid-sentence.
Biography
Greek rhetoricThe mark of trailing off. Writers had long used rows of dots to show a pause or an omission, and printers eventually standardized on three, evenly spaced, as one character. The word is Greek — élleipsis, a falling short or leaving out — the same root behind the ellipse and the grammarian's ellipsis, the words a sentence deliberately omits.
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U+2026 - HTML entity
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\2026 - JavaScript
\u2026 - URL encoded
%E2%80%A6 - Windows Alt code
Alt+0133