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Noun deletion has 4 senses

• deletion(n = noun.process) omission - any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases; Array
has particulars: aphaeresis, apheresis, aphesis, elision, eclipsis, ellipsis
is a kind of linguistic process

• deletion(n = noun.event) Array - (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome; Array
is a kind of chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation, mutation

• deletion(n = noun.communication) cut, excision - 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"
is a kind of editing, redaction
Derived forms verb delete₃, verb delete₁

• deletion(n = noun.act) Array - the act of deleting something written or printed; Array
is a kind of remotion, removal
has particulars: castration, expurgation, censoring, censorship, erasure, expunction, expunging
Derived forms verb delete₃, verb delete₁

THESAURUS

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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deletion

Obliteration

N obliteration, erasure, rasure, cancel, cancellation, circumduction, deletion, blot, tabula rasa, effacement, extinction, obliterated, out of print, printless, leaving no trace, intestate, unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten, Int, dele, out with it!, delenda est Carthago.

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