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Definitions

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

Synonyms

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abbreviationabridgmentabstractapocopeaposiopesisclipping

Example

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

Etymology

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

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