deleção
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- delecção (pre-1990 spelling)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin dēlētiōnem (“destruction”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.leˈsɐ̃w̃/ [de.leˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɨ.lɛˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Hyphenation: de‧le‧ção
Noun
deleção f (plural deleções)
- destruction; elimination; annihilation
- Synonyms: aniquilação, eliminação
- (computing) deletion (act of erasing data from storage)
- Synonyms: deletamento, exclusão
- (genetics) deletion (mutation causing loss of DNA from chromosomes)
Related terms
- deletar