deletion

deletion

See also: délétion

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English

Etymology

From Latin dēlētiōnem (“destruction, effacement”), from the past-participle stem of dēlēre (“to blot out, destroy, efface”).[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈliːʃən/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -iːʃən

Noun

deletion (countable and uncountable, plural deletions)

1. An item that has been or will be deleted. [1580s[1]]
2. The act of deleting. [c. 1600[1]]

   Hyponym: redeletion

3. (genetics) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome.
4. (Internet slang) An act of killing or murder.

Derived terms

• hard deletion
• schwa deletion
• self-deletion
• soft deletion

 

Translations

an item that has been or will be deleted

Chinese: Mandarin: 刪除／删除 (zh) (shānchú) Finnish: poisto (fi) Portuguese: apagado (pt) m

the act of deleting

Afrikaans: skrapping Chinese: Mandarin: 刪除／删除 (zh) (shānchú) Czech: smazání n, vymazání n Dutch: verwijdering (nl) Esperanto: forigo Finnish: poistaminen (fi), poisto (fi) French: suppression (fr) f German: Löschung f Greek: διαγραφή (el) f (diagrafí) Icelandic: eyðing (is) f Japanese: 削除 (ja) (さくじょ, sakujo) Polish: skasowanie (pl) n, usunięcie (pl) n Portuguese: exclusão (pt) f, deleção (pt) f, deletamento m (Brazil) Russian: удале́ние (ru) n (udalénije), стира́ние (ru) n (stiránije) (erasure) Spanish: supresión (es) f, borrado (es) m, deleción (es) f Swedish: borttagning (sv) c, radering (sv) c

mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome

Chinese: Mandarin: 刪除／删除 (zh) (shānchú) Esperanto: genforigo Finnish: poistuma French: délétion (fr), cassure chromosomique (fr) German: Deletion (de) f Hungarian: deléció Indonesian: delesi Italian: delezione (it) Japanese: 欠失 (けっしつ, kesshitsu) Portuguese: deleção (pt) f Russian: деле́ция (ru) f (delécija) Spanish: deleción (es)

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Bulgarian: (please verify) премахване (bg) n (premahvane), (please verify) изтриване (bg) n (iztrivane) Dutch: (please verify) verwijdering (nl) French: (please verify) suppression (fr) Hungarian: (please verify) törlés (hu) Italian: (please verify) cancellatura f, (please verify) cancellazione (it) f Norwegian: (please verify) sletting Spanish: (please verify) supresión (es), (please verify) borrado (es) m

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “deletion”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• entoiled