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deletion collapse: the act of deleting something written or printed; 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"; (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome

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

overview collapse: a general summary of a subject; "the treasurer gave a brief overview of the financial consequences"

contraction collapse: the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope; (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber); a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; "`won't' is a contraction of `will not'"; "`o'clock' is a contraction of `of the clock'"

recapitulation collapse: a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion; (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated

compression collapse: applying pressure; encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required; the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; "the contraction of a gas on cooling"

erasure collapse: a surface area where something has been erased; "another word had been written over the erasure"; a correction made by erasing; "there were many erasures in the typescript"

privation collapse: act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"; a state of extreme poverty

summation collapse: the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven"; a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court); (physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce

syncope collapse: (phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')

subtraction collapse: the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks"; an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"

weakening collapse: the act of reducing the strength of something; becoming weaker; moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker

deflation collapse: the act of letting the air out of something; a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices; (geology) the erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind; "a constant deflation of the desert landscape"

retrenchment collapse: the reduction of expenditures in order to become financial stable; entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense

diminution collapse: the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original)

abbreviation collapse: shortening something by omitting parts of it; a shortened form of a word or phrase

relaxation collapse: a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount; an occurrence of control or strength weakening; "the relaxation of requirements"; "the loosening of his grip"; "the slackening of the wind"; (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance; (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers

cancellation collapse: the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement; the speech act of revoking or annulling or making void

summary collapse: a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form; "he gave a summary of the conclusions"

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