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Elision

//ɪˈlɪʒ.(ə)n̩// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The deliberate omission of something.
  2. 2
    a deliberate act of omission wordnet
  3. 3
    The omission of a letter or syllable between two words or inside a word; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.

    "See also: contraction, apheresis, apocope, syncope"

  4. 4
    omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next) wordnet

Etymology

From Latin ēlīsion-, the stem of ēlīsio (“striking out, forcing out”).

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