deletion
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Any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases.
synoniem: omission.
Roget 552: obliteration; erasure, rasure†; cancel, cancellation; circumduction†; deletion, blot; tabula rasa [Lat.]; effacement, extinction.
Nederlands: deletie, weglating
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genetics The loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome.
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The omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage:
— An editor's deletions frequently upset young authors.
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The act of deleting something written or printed.
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: abbreviation, abridgment, blot, blotting, blotting out, blue-penciling, bowdlerization, cancel, cancellation, censoring, censorship, editing, effacement, erasure, expunction, expurgation, obliteration, omission, scrubbing, striking ... meer laten zien.
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