Ellipsis, in Standard English grammar, is used as the omission from a sentence or other word constructions of one or more words that would complete or clarify the constructs. It is also used as the omission of one or more items in order to avoid repeating the identical or equivalent items preceding or following order of creation. 3 spaced periods indicate omission within. 4 periods indicate the end of a direct quotation. Before the arrival of typewriters, personal computers, or word processors, a good practice for English composition is to dot the “i” s and cross the “t.”

In mathematics, it is used to indicate the infinite terms of series and sequences and also for the infinite repeating decimals of rational or non-repeating decimals of irrational numbers. In geometry dots represent the end points of a line segment. 3 connected dots formed a triangle. For regular convex connections: 4 dots is a square, 5 dots a pentagon, 6 dots a hexagon, 7 dots heptagon, 8 dots an octagon, so on and so forth. Infinite noncolinear dots equidistant from a center dot formed a circle.

In physics it represents a quantum of spacetime. 2 dots represent electron neutrino and meson, 3 dots for baryon, 4 dots for down, strange, and bottom quark, 5 dots for odd spacetime charges, 6 dots for muon neutrino, 7 dots for odd spacetime charges, 8 dots for electron, positron, and photon, 9 dots for odd spacetime charges, 10 dots for W boson and tau neutrino, 16 dots for Z boson. A dot at the lowest level of existence of zero dimensions represents the big bang singularity. 2 dots at the 11th dimension represent an open string while infinite noncolinear dots represent a closed string or loop. 2 linked loops either form clockwise or counterclockwise Möbius topology.