elision

elision
    n 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" [syn: {exception},
       {exclusion}, {elision}]
    

30 Moby Thesaurus words for "elision":
      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