- omission, deletion - any process whereby sounds are left out of spoken words or phrases
--1 is a kind of linguistic process
--1 has particulars:aphaeresis, apheresis; aphesis; elision; ellipsis, eclipsis - deletion, excision, cut - the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"
--2 is a kind of editing, redaction
Derived forms: verb delete1, verb delete3 - deletion - the act of deleting something written or printed
--3 is a kind of removal, remotion
--3 has particulars:expurgation, castration; censoring, censorship; expunction, expunging, erasure Derived forms: verb delete3, verb delete1