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Deletion   /dɪlˈiʃən/   Listen
Deletion

noun
1.
Any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases.  Synonym: omission.
2.
(genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome.
3.
The omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage.  Synonyms: cut, excision.  "Both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"
4.
The act of deleting something written or printed.





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... Obliteration. — N. obliteration; erasure, rasure[obs3]; cancel, cancellation; circumduction[obs3]; deletion, blot; tabula rasa[Lat]; effacement, extinction. V. efface, obliterate, erase, raze|!, rase[obs3], expunge, cancel; blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


Words linked to "Deletion" :   chromosomal mutation, aphaeresis, mutation, genetic mutation, expurgation, removal, castration, linguistic process, aphesis, delete, erasure, omission, editing, redaction, expunction, expunging, remotion, genetics, genetic science, apheresis, ellipsis, eclipsis, censoring, cut, censorship, elision


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