Midline Horizontal Ellipsis

Part of Math Symbols

Midline Horizontal Ellipsis has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.

Alt code
None
HTML entity
⋯
Unicode
U+22EF

About this symbol

⋯, the midline ellipsis, stands for terms left out of a sum or product: 1 + 2 + ⋯ + n. Mathematicians centre it at the height of the plus signs, while the ordinary ellipsis … sits on the line, as in 1, 2, …, n.

Unicode facts

Official name
MIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
Type
Maths symbol
Unicode block
Mathematical Operators
Unicode group
Matrix ellipses
Added in
Unicode 1.1 (1993)

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