omission
nounUK /ə(ʊ)ˈmɪʃ.ən/ · CA, US /oʊˈmɪʃ.ən/
Etymology From Middle English omissioun, from Old French omission, from Late Latin omissio, omissionem, from Latin omitto.
1
The act of omitting.
- Scots was not ‘banned’ outright — impossible anyway with so many Scots-speaking teachers but, like Gaelic, marginalised by omission.2023, Clive Young, “chapter three: From Union to Devolution”, in Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 88:
2
The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
- E&O insurance (for errors and omissions) covers both errors of commission and errors of omission.
3
An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out.
- The suspicious omissions in the new edition of the book attracted claims of censorship.
4
Something not done or neglected.
- The lack of a sponge count was an omission by the surgical team.
5
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences 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.
- Derived terms
- nonomission
- Related terms
- contraction