elision
- n omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
- n a deliberate act of omission
- The Alchemical Wedding, which elision premiered at the Melbourne Festival in 1996, shifts almost imperceptibly between Western and Eastern sounds, from contrabassoon to erhu (as .
- The boy seems so completely a product of two loving parentswho suffered seven miscarriages before he was born and chose as his name an elision of theirs .
- Ordinary phone calls became exercises in awkward misdirection and elision, and everyday conversations came with a healthy dose of looking over our shoulders.