Deletion - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |dɪˈliːʃn|  American pronunciation of the word deletion
Brit.  |dɪˈliːʃ(ə)n|  British pronunciation of the word deletion

noun

- any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases (syn: omission)
- (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage (syn: cut, excision)
an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors
- the act of deleting something written or printed

Extra examples

...one of the deletions from the final cut of the movie turned out to be my one line of dialogue...

Word forms

noun
singular: deletion
plural: deletions
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