Noun
a deliberate act of omission
omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
Source: WordNetIt was the elision of the weaker element - the survival of the fittest; and some, indeed very many, mothers must lose their sons that way. Zane Grey
with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news Source: Internet
Catullus, for example, allows an elision across the caesura in 18 cases, a rare flaw in the later poets (Ovid, for example, never does this). Source: Internet
The formal way to denote elision in Swedish is by using colon, e.g. S:t Erik for Sankt Erik which is rarely spelled out in full. Source: Internet
Just over a year after their debut with the original musical RAGTIME WOMEN, featuring little known Ragtime gems by female composers, Theatre Elision closes their first fill season with another original musical. Source: Internet
Elision also occurred in Ancient Greek but in that language it is shown in writing by the vowel in question being replaced by an apostrophe, whereas in Latin elision is not indicated at all in the orthography, but can be deduced from the verse form. Source: Internet