deletion

See also: délétion

English

Etymology

From Latin dēlētiōnem (“destruction, effacement”), from the past-participle stem of dēlēre (“to blot out, destroy, efface”). Equivalent to delete +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈliːʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːʃən

Noun

deletion (countable and uncountable, plural deletions)

1. An item that has been or will be deleted. [1580s]
2. The act of deleting. [c. 1600]

   Hyponym: redeletion

   The file contained errors that required deletion.

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

   A genetic deletion caused the disorder.

4. (Internet slang) An act of killing or murder.

Derived terms

• 13q deletion syndrome
• 1p36 deletion syndrome
• 22q13 deletion syndrome
• 2q37 deletion syndrome
• 9q34 deletion syndrome
• autodeletion
• codeletion
• deletional
• deletionism
• deletionist
• hard deletion
• indel
• left-edge deletion
• megadeletion
• microdeletion
• nondeletion
• schwa deletion
• self-deletion
• soft deletion
• speedy deletion
• subdeletion
• transdeletion
• undeletion

Translations

an item that has been or will be deleted

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刪除 / 删除 (zh) (shānchú)

• Finnish: poisto (fi)

the act of deleting

• Afrikaans: skrapping
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刪除 / 删除 (zh) (shānchú)

• Czech: smazání n, vymazání n
• Dutch: verwijdering (nl)
• Esperanto: forigo
• Finnish: poistaminen (fi), poisto (fi)
• French: suppression (fr) f
• German: Löschung f
• Greek: διαγραφή (el) f (diagrafí)
• Icelandic: eyðing (is) f
• Indonesian: penghapusan (id)
• Japanese: 削除 (ja) (さくじょ, sakujo)
• Korean: 삭제(削除) (ko) (sakje)
• Polish: skasowanie (pl) n, usunięcie (pl) n
• Portuguese: exclusão (pt) f, deleção (pt) f, deletamento m (Brazil)
• Russian: удале́ние (ru) n (udalénije), стира́ние (ru) n (stiránije) (erasure)
• Spanish: supresión (es) f, borrado (es) m, deleción (es) f, elisión (es) f, borradura f, eliminación (es) f
• Swedish: borttagning (sv) c, radering (sv) c

mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刪除 / 删除 (zh) (shānchú)

• Esperanto: genforigo
• Finnish: poistuma
• French: délétion (fr), cassure chromosomique (fr)
• German: Deletion (de) f
• Hungarian: deléció
• Indonesian: delesi, penghapusan (id)
• Italian: delezione (it)
• Japanese: 欠失 (けっしつ, kesshitsu)
• Portuguese: deleção (pt) f
• Russian: деле́ция (ru) f (delécija)
• Spanish: deleción (es)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} премахване (bg) n (premahvane), ^{(please verify)} изтриване (bg) n (iztrivane)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} verwijdering (nl)
• French: ^{(please verify)} suppression (fr)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} törlés (hu)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} cancellatura f, ^{(please verify)} cancellazione (it) f
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} sletting

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