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Greek: elleipsis (falling short, deficiency)
Omitting words while maintaining meaning
"The man with the white hat" instead of "The man who is wearing the white hat"
Ensure clarity. Create economy. Maintain grammatical sense.
Efficient prose, implied meaning, stylistic compression