ELISION

exception, exclusion, elision

(noun) a deliberate act of omission; “with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news”

elision

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

elision (plural elisions)

The deliberate omission of something.

(linguistics) The omission of a letter or syllable between two words; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.

Anagrams

• isoline, lionise

Source: Wiktionary



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