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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

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

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

3. the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage;
- Example: "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors"
- Example: "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"
[syn: deletion, excision, cut]

4. the act of deleting something written or printed; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Deletion \De*le"tion\, n. [L. deletio, fr. delere. See
   Delete.]
   Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.
   [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
   [1913 Webster]

         A total deletion of every person of the opposing party.
                                                  --Sir M. Hale.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

deletion
    n 1: any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken
         words or phrases [syn: omission, deletion]
    2: (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides
       from a chromosome
    3: 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: deletion, excision, cut]
    4: the act of deleting something written or printed


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

22 Moby Thesaurus words for "deletion":
   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