omission
Noun
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is a type of: error, fault, mistake - a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattentionsubtypes: failure - an unexpected omissionsame as: skip
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is a type of: linguistic process - a process involved in human languagesubtypes:
- aphaeresis, apheresis - (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'
- aphesis - the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'
- elision - omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
- eclipsis, ellipsis - omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
same as: deletion -
subtypes:
- inadvertence, oversight - an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
- pretermission - letting pass without notice
- elision, exception, exclusion - a deliberate act of omission
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