DELETION

n. erasure, obliteration

The term Deletion may have the following specialized meanings:File deletion, a way of removing a file from a computer's file systemDeletion (genetics), deletion of a gene or chromosome segment, symbolized in the literature by a Δ symbolDeletion (music industry), a term for removing a record from a label's catalogDeletion (linguistics), a phonological process that allows for the elimination of a segment Delete may refer to:Delete key, a key on modern computer keyboards which erases textDelete (SQL), Delete for SQLDEL, the delete control code in the C0 and C1 control codesdelete, a built-in operator in the C++ programming language.
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Noun
1. any process whereby sounds are left out of spoken words or phrases
(synonym) omission
(hypernym) linguistic process
(hyponym) aphaeresis, apheresis
2. 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"
(synonym) excision, cut
(hypernym) editing, redaction
(derivation) delete, cancel
3. the act of deleting something written or printed
(hypernym) removal, remotion
(hyponym) expurgation, castration
(derivation) edit, blue-pencil, delete

n. deletion, erasure, obliteration

(n.)
Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.