- Grammar.
- the omission from a sentence or other construction of one or more words that would complete or clarify the construction, as the omission of who are, while I am, or while we are from I like to interview people sitting down.
- the omission of one or more items from a construction in order to avoid repeating the identical or equivalent items that are in a preceding or following construction, as the omission of been to Paris from the second clause of I've been to Paris, but they haven't.
- a mark or marks as ——, …, or * * *, to indicate an omission or suppression of letters or words.
- omission of parts of a word or sentence
- a sequence of three dots (…) indicating an omission in text
