Lafarge is the second largest global cement company of 2013 by cement production capacity. The Global Cement Directory 2013 reported a capacity of 205Mt/yr in 2013, compared with 225Mt/yr for 2012 reported in the Top 20 global cement companies of 2012 and 224Mt/yr claimed on its website.
verb (used with object), elided, eliding. 1. to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation. 2. to suppress; omit; ignore; pass over. 3. Law. to annul or quash. Origin of elide.
In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. Sometimes sounds are elided to make a word easier to pronounce. The word elision is frequently used in linguistic description of living languages, and deletion is often used in historical linguistics for a historical sound change.