deletion
/dɪˈliːʃən/US/dɪˈliʃən/
deletion noun: an item that has been or will be deleted.
Noun
deletion (countable and uncountable, plural deletions)
deletion meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
deletion in Hindi
- deletion
- मिटाना miṭānā
deletion in Tamil
- நீக்கம், அகற்றுதல், கழிவு, ஒதுக்குதல், நீக்குதல்
deletion in Urdu
- حذف, محو
deletion in Malayalam
- തുടച്ചുകളയൽ, മായ്ച്ചുകളഞ്ഞ ഭാഗം, നീക്കം ചെയ്യൽ
More languagesFewer languages
- deletion in Kannada
- ವಿಲೋನ, ತೆಗೆದುಹಾಕುವುದು
- deletion in Indonesian
- penghapusan, delesi
Examples of deletion in a sentence
- Make sure you deselect any files you wish to keep before proceeding with the deletion.
- Messages removed by soft deletion can be recovered if necessary.
- Someone else may want to consider whether the AfDs (Articles for deletion) should be closed as initiated disruptively by a sock of an indeffed user.
Forms of deletion
| plural | deletions |
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Origin of deletion
From Latin dēlētiōnem (“destruction, effacement”), from the past-participle stem of dēlēre (“to blot out, destroy, efface”). Equivalent to delete + -ion.
Words formed from deletion
- 13q deletion syndrome
- 1p36 deletion syndrome
- 22q13 deletion syndrome
- 2q37 deletion syndrome
- 9q34 deletion syndrome
- autodeletion
- chromosome 5q deletion syndrome
- codeletion
- deletional
- deletionism
- deletionist
- hard deletion
- homodeletion
- indel
- left-edge deletion
- megadeletion
- microdeletion
- nondeletion
- schwa deletion
- self-deletion
- soft deletion
- speedy deletion
- subdeletion
- transdeletion
- undeletion
- whiz deletion
Words that rhyme with deletion
- accretion
- completion
- venetian
- Grecian
- concretion
- Lutetian
- Rhaetian
- excretion
- Phoenician
- secretion
- bicompletion
- hyperdepletion
2 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about deletion
- What does deletion mean?
- Deletion means an item that has been or will be deleted.
- What is deletion in Hindi?
- Deletion in Hindi is मिटाना (miṭānā). See Deletion meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is deletion?
- Deletion is a noun.
- How do you pronounce deletion?
- Deletion is pronounced /dɪˈliːʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of deletion?
- The plural of deletion is deletions.
Words near deletion in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: deletion (page history and authors); मिटाना (Hindi) (page history and authors); deletion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deletion (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deletion (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deletion (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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