cancelation

Noun

cancellation (countable and uncountable, plural cancellations)

1. The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
   • Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3

   Synonyms:

   annulment, revocation, stoppage, termination, abolition, abrogation, deauthentication, devalidation, invalidation, nullification

2. The operation of striking out common factors, e.g. in both the dividend and divisor.
3. A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.
4. In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent.
5. The property of being cancellate.
   • 194?, Columbia University. School of Dental and Oral Surgery, Principles of Radiodontia
     Spongy bone is composed of cancellated areas appearing as a fine, interlacing network. These cancellated spaces are irregular both in size and shape. The normal cancellation is rather large […]