Three dots can refer to: * ''

3 Dots ''3 Dots'' is a 2013 Malayalam comedy thriller film directed by Sugeeth. The film stars Kunchacko Boban, Biju Menon and Prathap K. Pothan with Narain, Krishna Kumar, Janani Iyer, Sreedhanya and Anjana Menon in supporting roles. ''3 Dots'' i ...

'', a 2013 Malayalam film * Asterism (typography) (⁂), indicates a flourished section break in a document * āytam (ஃ), a Tamil letter which is neither a vowel nor a consonant *

Because sign In logical argument and mathematical proof, the therefore sign, , is generally used before a logical consequence, such as the conclusion of a syllogism. The symbol consists of three dots placed in an upright triangle and is read ''therefore''. ...

(∵), 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 The ellipsis (, also known informally as dot dot dot) is a series of dots that indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without altering its original meaning. The plural is ellipses. The term origin ...

(… or . . .), indicates an intentional omission of a word *

Leader (typography) A leader in typography is a series of characters, usually lines of dots or dashes, that are used as a visual aid to connect items on a page that might be separated by considerable horizontal distance. For example, dot leaders are often used in ta ...

, may be represented with three dots or ellipses * In

Free Masonry Freemasonry or Masonry refers to Fraternity, fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of Stonemasonry, stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their inte ...

, 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 Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of ...

* In

Japanese maps The earliest known term used for maps in Japan is believed to be ''kata'' (, roughly "form"), which was probably in use until roughly the 8th century. During the Nara period, the term ''zu'' () came into use, but the term most widely used and asso ...

, the symbol indicates an historic site. * Therefore sign (

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or ∴), a shorthand form of the word "therefore" or "thus" * The COMBINING THREE DOTS ABOVE (U+20DB, ) character is a combining diacritical mark for symbols; associated after a SPACE (U+0020), 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 PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group ...

* Three Dots Tattoo, a prison tattoo in North America *The vertical ellipsis (⋮)

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