Omission

//oʊˈmɪʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of omitting. uncountable

    "Scots was not ‘banned’ outright — impossible anyway with so many Scots-speaking teachers but, like Gaelic, marginalised by omission."

  2. 2
    a mistake resulting from neglect wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do. uncountable

    "E&O insurance (for errors and omissions) covers both errors of commission and errors of omission."

  4. 4
    neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something wordnet
  5. 5
    An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out. countable

    "The suspicious omissions in the new edition of the book attracted claims of censorship."

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  1. 6
    any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases wordnet
  2. 7
    Something not done or neglected. countable, uncountable

    "The lack of a sponge count was an omission by the surgical team."

  3. 8
    something that has been omitted wordnet
  4. 9
    The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English omissioun, from Old French omission, from Late Latin omissio, omissionem, from Latin omitto.

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