omission
Pronunciation: /ə(ʊ)ˈmɪʃ.ən/
The English word “omission” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- The act of omitting.
- The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
- An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out.
- Something not done or neglected.
- The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.
Etymology
From Middle English omissioun, from Old French omission, from Late Latin omissio, omissionem, from Latin omitto.
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