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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
crasis /ˈkreɪsɪs/

▶noun (pl. crases /-siːz/) Phonetics a contraction of two adjacent vowels into one long vowel or diphthong.

– origin C16: from Gk krasis ‘mixture’.

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