Elision

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  elision
       n 1: omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and
            the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
       2: a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the
          children, everyone was told the news" [syn: {exception}, {exclusion}]



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "elision":
     abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, apocope, aposiopesis, clipping,
     compression, condensation, conspectus, contraction, crasis,
     curtailment, cutting, ellipsis, epitome, foreshortening, precis,
     pruning, recap, recapitulation, reduction, retrenchment,
     shortening, summary, summation, syncope, syneresis, synopsis,
     telescoping, truncation