Three dots explained

Three dots can refer to:

• 3 Dots, a 2013 Malayalam film
• Because sign (∵), a shorthand form of the word "because"
• Dinkus, commonly represented as three asterisks or three large dots, usually refers to a break or omission in written text
• Ellipsis (… or . . .), indicates an intentional omission of a word
• Leader (typography), may be represented with three dots or ellipses
• In Free Masonry, as an abbreviation. Freemasons use as an abbreviation sign, for example as in "W∴M∴" standing for Worshipful Master; "the L∴", the Lodge.
• The letter S in Morse code
• In Japanese maps, the symbol indicates an historic site.
• Therefore sign (

\therefore or ∴), a shorthand form of the word "therefore" or "thus"

• character is a combining diacritical mark for symbols. When used after, it is used in mathematical notations (and represented with the "tdot" or "TripleDot" entities in HTML 5.0 and MathML 3.0)
• In music notation, a triple-dotted note is a note with three dots written after it
• The rest operator in JavaScript; the splat operator in PHP
• Three Dots Tattoo, a prison tattoo in North America
• The vertical ellipsis (⋮)

See also

• Dot (disambiguation)
• Two dots (disambiguation)
• Asterism (typography) (⁂), indicates a flourished section break in a document
• āytam (ஃ), a Tamil letter which is neither a vowel nor a consonant