elision

Noun	1.	elision - omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
	2.	elision - a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news" Synonyms: exception, exclusion

abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, apocope, aposiopesis, clipping, compression, condensation, conspectus, contraction, crasis, curtailment, cutting, ellipsis, epitome, foreshortening, precis, pruning, recap, recapitulation, reduction, retrenchment, shortening, summary, summation, syncope, syneresis, synopsis, telescoping, truncation