Ellipses is the plural form of either of two words in the English language:

In mathematics, an ellipse (from the Greek ἔλλειψις, literally absence) is the locus of points on a plane for which the sum of the distances from any point to two fixed points is constant. The two fixed points are called foci (plural of focus)....

Ellipsis (plural ellipses; from Greek ἔλλειψις 'omission') in printing and writing refers to the row of three full stops (… or . . . ) or asterisks (***) indicating an intentional omission. This punctuation mark is also called...