deletion

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) An item that has been or will be deleted.
2. (countable, uncountable) The act of deleting.
3. (countable, uncountable) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome.
4. (Internet, countable, uncountable) An act of killing or murder.

Synonyms

omission

removal

erasure

cancellation

elimination

abolition

elision

eradication

abrogation

erasing

excision

annulment

abolishment

delete

obliteration

clear

ellipsis

cross out

cut

deficiency

deposal

cancel

deletion mutation

negation

purge

recision

recission

remotion

retraction

subtraction

suppress

suppression

voidance

write off

write-off

crossing off

depreciation charge

rub-out

amission

a deleted passage

a deleted record

gene deletion

abbreviation

ablation

abridgement

abridgment

annihilation

avoidance

cutting out

deduction

Translations

suppression

deleción

délétion

deleção

cancellazione

supresión

κατάργηση

διαγραφή

Tilgung

effacement

εξάλειψη

supressió

Deletion

Aufhebung

cancellatura

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈliːʃən/

Etymology

From Latin dēlētiōnem (“destruction, effacement”), from the past-participle stem of dēlēre (“to blot out, destroy, efface”). Equivalent to delete + -ion.