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|Definition=εως, ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[taking together]] or [[drawing together]], <b class="b3">ἡ τῶν ἄκρων εἰς ταὐτὸ συναίρεσις</b> Longin.10.3; ς. (''[[sc.]]'' [[καρπός|καρπῶν]]) Ath.11.489f; [[contraction]], [[closing]], τῶν διοδευθησομένων Χωρίων Sor.2.59.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[contraction]] of front, opp. [[αὔξησις]], Ascl.''Tact.'' 11.7; [[shortening]], [[reduction]] of an estimated [[distance]], Ptol.''Geog.''1.8.3; συναίρεσις τοῦ μήκους (of a [[fractured]] [[limb]]) Sor.''Fract.''19 (συνερεισις cod.).<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[aggregation]], Dam.''Pr.''96; [[synthesis]], ib.277,280; [[concentration]], τῆς [[νοερός|νοερᾶς]] [[οὐσία]]ς Simp. ''in Ph.''635.32; [[generalization]], opp. [[διαίρεσις]], Elias ''in Porph.''76.19.<br><span class="bld">4</span> in Gramm., [[synaeresis]], [[syneresis]], whereby two vowels are not changed, but [[coalesce]] into a [[diphthong]], as [[ὀϊστός]], [[οἰστός]], opp. [[διαίρεσις]], Quint.''Inst.''1.5.17, A.D.''Adv.''132.25; but also [[contraction]], as of [[κύημα]] to [[κῦμα]], Gal.6.642.