Three dots: dot leaders or ellipsis?

[nq:1]What do you call the three dots that indicate continuity that is not articulated/worded? I mean the ... Does it have a name like dot leaders?[/nq]
When I was young I called it three little dots.
I now call it an ellipsis.
Do you remember Monty Python?
"And now..
Fifteen little white dots."
Alan

I know this is asking a lot but would everyone who reads this ple

[nq:2]What do you call the three dots that indicate continuity ... the ... Does it have a name like dot leaders?[/nq]
[nq:1]When I was young I called it three little dots. I now call it an ellipsis.[/nq]
There are those who call it (them?) "suspension points," as I learned during a prior thread on AUE. See
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Bob Lieblich
Hanging there

[nq:1]What do you call the three dots that indicate continuity that is not articulated/worded? I mean the ... Does it have a name like dot leaders?[/nq]
I use "ellipsis". "Dot leaders" are used in typesetting things like tables of contents, to provide a visual guide across a river of whitespace.

Chris Green

[nq:1]I use "ellipsis". "Dot leaders" are used in typesetting things like tables of contents, to provide a visual guide across a river of whitespace.[/nq]
Yes; a "leader" (of any kind) fills up a line with as many repetitions as necessary, while an "ellipsis" comprises exactly three dots (not necessarily spaced the way three periods would appear if so typed).

Odysseus

[nq:2]I use "ellipsis". "Dot leaders" are used in typesetting things like tables of contents, to provide a visual guide across a river of whitespace.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes; a "leader" (of any kind) fills up a line with as many repetitions as necessary, while an "ellipsis" comprises exactly three dots (not necessarily spaced the way three periods would appear if so typed).[/nq]
Four if the elision

[nq:1]Four if the elision includes the end of a sentence.[/nq]
That would be an ellipsis followed by a period; the difference in spacing between the third dot and the first two will usually be noticeable, depending on the font design and letterspacing.

Odysseus

[nq:2]Four if the elision includes the end of a sentence.[/nq]
[nq:1]That would be an ellipsis followed by a period; the difference in spacing between the third dot and the first two will usually be noticeable, depending on the font design and letterspacing.[/nq]
Four dots should be typeset as a period followed by the ellipsis. . . .
The ellipsis itself has space before, after, and bet

[nq:2]That would be an ellipsis followed by a period; the ... usually be noticeable, depending on the font design and letterspacing.[/nq]
[nq:1]Four dots should be typeset as a period followed by the ellipsis. . .[/nq]
What if the rest of the sentence is elided, and also the rest of the paragraph?

[nq:2]That would be an ellipsis followed by a period; the ... usually be noticeable, depending on the font design and letterspacing.[/nq]
[nq:1]Four dots should be typeset as a period followed by the ellipsis. . . .[/nq]
I would only do that when indicating the omission of part of a paragraph* following a complete sentence. Where the final words of a *sentence are omitted, the white