deletion

See also: délétion

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈliːʃən/
• 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

3. (genetics) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome.
4. (Internet slang) An act of killing or murder.

Derived terms

• self-deletion

Translations

an item that has been or will be deleted

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刪除 (zh), 删除 (zh) (shānchú)

• Finnish: poisto (fi)
• Portuguese: deletado (pt) m

the act of deleting

• Afrikaans: skrapping
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刪除 (zh), 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
• Japanese: 削除 (ja) (さくじょ, sakujo)
• Polish: skasowanie (pl) n, usunięcie (pl) n
• Portuguese: exclusão (pt) f, deleção (pt) f, deletamento m
• Russian: удале́ние (ru) n (udalénije), стира́ние (ru) n (stiránije) (erasure)
• Spanish: supresión (es) f, borrado (es) m, deleción (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 (zh), 删除 (zh) (shānchú)

• Esperanto: genforigo
• Finnish: poistuma
• French: délétion (fr), cassure chromosomique (fr)
• German: Deletion (de) f
• Hungarian: deléció

• Indonesian: delesi
• 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, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. 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
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} supresión (es), ^{(please verify)} borrado (es) m

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