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Definition of Deletion

1. Noun. Any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases.

2. Noun. (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome.

3. Noun. The omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage. "Both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"

4. Noun. The act of deleting something written or printed.

Definition of Deletion

1. n. Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.

Definition of Deletion

1. Noun. An item that has been or will be deleted. ¹

2. Noun. The act of deleting. ¹

3. Noun. (genetics) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deletion

1. the act of deleting [n -S]

Medical Definition of Deletion

1. A chromosome abnormality in which part of a single chromosome has been lost. (13 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deletion

deleted deleted scene deleted scenes deletee deletees deleter deleteries deleterious deleteriously deleteriousness

deleters deletery deletes deletia deleting deletion (current term) deletion mutation deletionism deletionist deletions

deletive deletories deletory delevel deleveled deleveling delevels deleverage deleveraged deleverages

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