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excisions

excisions is the plural of excision.

Meaning of excision

Noun

excision (countable and uncountable, plural excisions)

  1. The removal of some text during editing.
    Synonyms:
    deletion
  2. The removal of something (a tumor or body part) by cutting.
    Synonyms:
    resection, -ectomy
  3. The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material.
  4. The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is unchanged by the identification of a subspace of the latter to a point.

Questions about excisions

What is excisions the plural of?
Excisions is the plural of excision.

Words near excisions in the dictionary

  1. excising
  2. excision
  3. excisional
  4. excisionase
  5. excisionases
  6. excisions
  7. excisive
  8. excisor
  9. excisors
  10. excisosome
  11. excisosomes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: excisions (page history and authors); excision (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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