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Removal, erasure
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deletion
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any process whereby sounds are left out of spoken words or phrases [syn: omission ] 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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deletion \De*le"tion\, n. [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.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An item that has been or will be deleted. 2 The act of delete. 3 (context genetics English) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
Usage examples of deletion.
A second point: Whereas a Bach fugue cannot do without any one of its voices, we can easily imagine the Hanna Wendling short story or the essay on the disintegration of values as separate, freestanding texts whose deletion would cost the novel none of its meaning or intelligibility.
Meanwhile, TTT, which made phenylalanine, coded for a nucleotide insertion, while its synonym TTC was the instruction for a nucleotide deletion.
He hides the deletion by cutting to footage of protestors and a photo of the Mayor before going back and showing Heston.
But as little as a single deletion near one end of the asymmetric gene can totally destroy the enzymatic function the gene codes for.
Even when I was a prisoner in the Cathedral the food had been adequate, and when I was another sort of prisoner with the Committee for Aesthetic Deletions, I was quite well fed, within the limits of hotel cooking.
It could account for quite a number of deletions in Kai's original requisition list.
I made one final punch, Deletions from file, and expected a whole series of identoplate numbers to show up.
Ever since, each of his successors had made in it a few corrections, deletions, or additions, as changing times indicated.
Everything about them, the faintly yellowed paper, the youthful handwriting, the deletions and corrections in the text, reminded him painfully of almost forgotten times.
Main armament was the Mark XVIIs 60cm Hellbore, but the infinite repeaters were reduced to twelve with the deletion of the bow battery (which had been found to compromise the structural integrity of the glacis plate).
Main armament was the Mark XVII's 60cm Hellbore, but the infinite repeaters were reduced to twelve with the deletion of the bow battery (which had been found to compromise the structural integrity of the glacis plate).