EPENTHESIS Antonyms

• the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

• (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)

• the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together

• a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds

• the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope

• any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases

• (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome

• the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

• the act of deleting something written or printed

• omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)

• a deliberate act of omission

• an occurrence that involves the production of a union

• the state of being combined into one body

• the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words

• a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy

• the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept

• correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization

• the act of fusing (or melting) together