Synizesis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Linguistics The union in pronunciation of two adjacent vowels into one syllable without forming a diphthong.
  • n. Biology The phase of meiosis in some species in which the chromatin contracts into a mass at one side of the nucleus.
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  • n. An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.
  • n. A poetic figure of speech in which two consecutive vowel sounds in the same word are pronounced as a single phoneme so that certain words adhere to a particular poetic meter.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.
  • n. A contraction of two syllables into one; synecphonesis.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In medicine, closure of the pupil; an obliteration of the pupil of the eye, causing a total loss of vision.
  • n. In grammar, the combination into one syllable of two vowels that would not form a diphthong.
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  • n. the contraction of chromatin towards one side of the nucleus during the prophase of meiosis
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    biological process    organic process   
    Cross Reference
    crasis   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    synecphonesis   
     
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