Crossword clues for deletion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Latin deletionem (nominative deletio), noun of action from past participle stem of delere (see delete).
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
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 of the proposed clause" [syn: excision, cut]
the act of deleting something written or printed
Wikipedia
In genetics, a deletion (also called gene deletion, deficiency, or deletion mutation) (sign: Δ) is a mutation (a genetic aberration) in which a part of a chromosome or a sequence of DNA is lost during DNA replication. Any number of nucleotides can be deleted, from a single base to an entire piece of chromosome. The smallest single base deletion mutations are believed occur by a single base flipping in the template DNA, followed by template DNA strand slippage, within the DNA polymerase active site. Deletions can be caused by errors in chromosomal crossover during meiosis, which causes several serious genetic diseases. Deletions that do not occur in multiples of three bases can cause a frameshift by changing the 3-nucleotide protein reading frame of the genetic sequence.
Deletion is the act of deleting or removal by striking out material, such as a word or passage, that has been removed from a body of written or printed matter.
Deletion is a music industry term referring to the removal of a record or records from a label's official catalog, so that it is out of print, but usually at a record artist's request.
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).