deletion

1 any process whereby sounds are left out of spoken words or phrases [syn: omission]

2 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]

3 the act of deleting something written or printed

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːʃən

Noun

1. An item that has been or will be deleted.
2. The act of deleting.

Translations

• Dutch: verwijdering
• French: suppression
• German: Löschung
• Norwegian: sletting
• Spanish: supresión
• Swedish: radering

The term Deletion may have the following specialized meanings:

• File deletion, a way of removing a file from a computer's file system
• Deletion (genetics), deletion of a gene or chromosome segment, symbolized in the literature by a Δ symbol
• Deletion (music industry), a term for removing a record from a label's catalog
• Deletion (linguistics), a phonological process that allows for the elimination of a segment

Delete may refer to:

• Delete key, a key on modern computer keyboards which erases text
• Delete (SQL), Delete for SQL
• DEL, the delete control code in the C0 and C1 control codes
• delete, a built-in operator in the C++ programming language.
• "Delete", the battle cry of the Cybermen in the 2006 Doctor Who series.

For information on wikipedia's deletion policy please go to the wikipedia help page Wikipedia:Deletion_policy --Justinkaz (talk) 16:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

abbreviation, abridgment, blot, blotting, blotting out, blue-penciling, bowdlerization, cancel, cancellation, censoring, censorship, editing, effacement, erasure, expunction, expurgation, obliteration, omission, scrubbing, striking, washing out, wiping out