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Haplology vs Deletion - What's the difference?

haplology | deletion |

As nouns the difference between haplology and deletion

is that haplology is (linguistics) the process of deleting one of two almost identical syllables within a word while deletion is deletion.

haplology

English

(wikipedia haplology)

Noun

  • (linguistics) The process of deleting one of two almost identical syllables within a word.
  • An instance of deleting one of two almost identical syllables within a word.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) (itself a haplology of haplology) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    deletion

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia deletion) (en noun)
  • An item that has been or will be deleted.
  • The act of deleting.
  • (genetics) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome