deletion

English Thesaurus

1. the act of deleting something written or printed (noun.act)

hypernym	:	remotion, removal,
definition	:	the act of removing (noun.act)

hyponym	:	castration, expurgation,
definition	:	the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work (noun.act)

hyponym	:	censoring, censorship,
definition	:	deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances (noun.act)

hyponym	:	erasure, expunction, expunging,
definition	:	deletion by an act of expunging or erasing (noun.act)

2. the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	editing, redaction,
definition	:	putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form (noun.communication)

3. (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome (noun.event)

hypernym	:	chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation, mutation,
definition	:	(genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism (noun.event)

domain category	:	genetic science, genetics,
definition	:	the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms (noun.cognition)

4. any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases (noun.process)

hypernym	:	linguistic process,
definition	:	a process involved in human language (noun.process)

hyponym	:	aphaeresis, apheresis,
definition	:	(linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' (noun.process)

hyponym	:	aphesis,
definition	:	the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire' (noun.process)

hyponym	:	elision,
definition	:	omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next) (noun.process)

hyponym	:	eclipsis, ellipsis,
definition	:	omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences (noun.process)

5. the act of deleting something written or printed (noun.act)

derivation	:	blue-pencil, delete, edit,
definition	:	cut or eliminate (verb.change)

derivation	:	cancel, delete,
definition	:	remove or make invisible (verb.contact)

6. the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage (noun.communication)

derivation	:	blue-pencil, delete, edit,
definition	:	cut or eliminate (verb.change)

derivation	:	cancel, delete,
definition	:	remove or make invisible (verb.contact)

derivation	:	excise, expunge, scratch, strike,
definition	:	remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line (verb.contact)

7. the act of deleting something written or printed (noun.act)

derivation	:	blue-pencil, delete, edit,
definition	:	cut or eliminate (verb.change)

derivation	:	cancel, delete,
definition	:	remove or make invisible (verb.contact)

8. the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage (noun.communication)

derivation	:	blue-pencil, delete, edit,
definition	:	cut or eliminate (verb.change)

derivation	:	cancel, delete,
definition	:	remove or make invisible (verb.contact)

derivation	:	excise, expunge, scratch, strike,
definition	:	remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line (verb.contact)