Meaning of ELISION

Pronunciation:			i'lizhun
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news" [n]  omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
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	Synonyms:		exception, exclusion
	See Also:		deletion, omission, omission
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		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