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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