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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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;
- Example: "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
[syn: exception, exclusion, elision]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, elision]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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