synaeresis

In later Greek, the two vowels form a diphthong (synaeresis).

Synalepha, two syllables becoming one, occurs by elision, crasis, synaeresis, or synizesis.

Syneresis (also written 'synæresis' or 'synaeresis') could refer to:

Similarly, the gel may liquefy, a condition known as synaeresis, allowing cells and other organic clusters to float freely within the vitreous humour.

If the next word begins with a dissimilar vowel, then and become approximant consonant in Brazilian Portuguese (synaeresis):

In this example, the standard pronunciation of louer uses the process of synaeresis to compress both of the original vowel sounds into one syllable.

Similarly, synalepha most often refers to elision (as in English contraction), but it can also refer to coalescence by other metaplasms: synizesis, synaeresis, or crasis.

In linguistics, synaeresis (also spelled syneresis) is a phonological process of sound change in which two adjacent vowels within a word are combined into a single syllable.

Syneresis (also spelled 'synæresis' or 'synaeresis'), in chemistry, is the extraction or expulsion of a liquid from a gel, as when lymph drains from a contracting clot of blood.

"By a synaeresis of the two short syllables," say the books, "an anapaest may sometimes be employed for an iambus, or dactyl for a trochee.... In the beginning of a line a trochee is often used for an iambus."