deletion

See also: délétion

English

Etymology

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

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

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

• hard deletion
• schwa deletion
• self-deletion
• soft deletion

 

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
• 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 (Brazil)
• 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／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. 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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