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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 aph·e·sis /ˈæfəsəs/
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Aph·e·sis n.  The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 aphesis
      n : the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed)
          vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'