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canceler

canceler is the agent noun of cancel.

Meaning of cancel

Noun

cancel (plural cancels)

  1. (US) A cancellation.
    1. (US) A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
  2. (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
    • A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit[…]desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body.1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC
  3. The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
  4. The page thus suppressed.
  5. The page that replaces it.

See all 17 meanings of cancel

Forms of canceler

pluralcancelers
alternative formcanceller

Origin of canceler

From cancel + -er. Piecewise doublet of chancellor.

Words formed from canceler

  • cascaded feedback canceler
  • IF canceler
  • three-pulse cascaded canceler
  • two-pulse canceler

Questions about canceler

What is canceler the agent noun of?
Canceler is the agent noun of cancel.

Words near canceler in the dictionary

  1. canceled
  2. canceled out
  3. canceled someone's Christmas
  4. canceleer
  5. canceleers
  6. canceler
  7. cancelers
  8. cancelier
  9. canceliered
  10. canceliering
  11. canceliers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canceler (page history and authors); cancel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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