Vertical Ellipsis
⋮
Type it
| Unicode | U+22EE | |
|---|---|---|
| LaTeX | \vdots | |
| HTML entity | ⋮ | |
| Character | ⋮ |
Meaning
Stands for rows left out of a column, as in a matrix or a vector. It works like the ellipsis turned on its side. Compare with Ellipsis and Centered Ellipsis.
How to read it
(x₁, ⋮, xₙ) as a column
is read “the column x one down to x n”.