elision

• n. 元音省略

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"

来自elide, 省略。

elision (n.)

1580s, from Latin elisionem (nominative elisio) "a striking out, a pressing out," in grammar, "the suppression of a vowel," noun of action from past participle stem of elidere (see elide).