 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
deletion
noun
1: any process whereby sounds are left out of spoken words or
phrases [syn: {omission}]
2: the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens
a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently upset
young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of
the proposed clause" [syn: {excision}, {cut}]
3: the act of deleting something written or printed
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Deletion \De*le"tion\, noun [L. deletio, fr. delere. See
{Delete}.]
Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.
[Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
A total deletion of every person of the opposing party.
--Sir M. Hale.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "deletion":
abbreviation, abridgment, blot, blotting, blotting out,
blue-penciling, bowdlerization, cancel, cancellation, censoring,
censorship, editing, effacement, erasure, expunction, expurgation,
obliteration, omission, scrubbing, striking, washing out,
wiping out
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