vertical ellipsis

English

Noun

vertical ellipsis (plural vertical ellipses)

1. The character "⋮". An ellipsis (three dots) vertically aligned. It is sometimes used to communicate the continuation of a list vertically as opposed to horizontally. It is also a mathematic notation which means "is divisible by" or "is a multiple of".

   18⋮9 means that 18 is divisible by 9.