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elision

noun

1 elision

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

Roget 44: disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement; discontinuity etc. 70; abjunction; cataclasm; inconnection; abstraction, abstractedness; ... show more

Roget 201: shortness etc. adj.; brevity; littleness etc. 193; a span.    shortening etc. v.; abbreviation, abbreviature; abridgment, ... show more

Dutch: elisie
Polish: elizja

2 elision

A deliberate act of omission.

synonyms: exception, exclusion.

Dutch: weglating
Polish: wykluczenie, wyłączenie


Moby thesaurus: abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, apocope, aposiopesis, clipping, compression, condensation, conspectus, contraction, crasis, curtailment, cutting, ellipsis, epitome, foreshortening, precis, pruning, recap, recapitulation ... show more.

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