Part of an ellipsis (3)
I believe the answer is:
dot
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">part of an ellipsis</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this in another clue)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for dot that I've seen before include "Full stop, point" , "scatter" , "Very small circular shape" , "Absolutely punctual, on it" , "One signal used in Morse code" .)