n. 【语法】词尾省略，词尾消失〔例 mine 变化为 my; cinematograph 变化为 cinema〕。
abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds; "the British get `pud'' from `pudding'' by apocope"
In phonology, apocope (; Greek apokoptein meaning cutting off, from apo- meaning away from and koptein meaning to cut) is the loss of one or more sounds from the end of a word, and especially the loss of an unstressed vowel.
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