Ellipsis

In printing and writing, an ellipsis is a row of three dots (...) or asterisks (* * *) indicating an intentional omission. The three-dot version is also used to indicate a pause in speech, or used at the end of a sentence to indicate a trailing off into silence. It can also mean part of a quote has been left out. For example, "She went to...school." "..." might represent "elementary", but the quoter wanted to leave that part out, so she put an ellipsis there to be true to the source.