Deletion

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deletion \De*le"tion\, n. [L. deletio, fr. delere. See
     {Delete}.]
     Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.
     [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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           A total deletion of every person of the opposing party.
                                                    --Sir M. Hale.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deletion
       n 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 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