> the URL is ellipses'd (what's the term for that?) Ellipsed. Weirdly, dictionar... | Hacker News

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thaumasiotes on Nov 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Operating the Lisp Machine (1981) [pdf]

> the URL is ellipses'd (what's the term for that?)

Ellipsed.

Weirdly, dictionary.cambridge.org, merriam-webster.com, and etymonline.com all avow ignorance of this verb, but wiktionary knows it. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ellipse#Verb

fineIllregister on Nov 8, 2015 [–]

I thought it was "elided".

thaumasiotes on Nov 8, 2015 | [–]

But the noun form of "elide" is "elision", whereas we want the verb for which the noun form is "ellipsis".

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