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Plural of deletion

regular plural

The plural of deletion is deletions.

Forms of deletion

Singulardeletion /dɪˈliːʃən/
Pluraldeletions
Countablecountable and uncountable

Deletions in a sentence

  • Translator notes that for Bowdlerizations and deletions the publishers are responsible.1970, “Bithell, Jethro, sel. and tr. Contemporary French Poetry. […]”, in George B. Parks, Ruth Z. Temple, editors, The Romance…. From the entry bowdlerization
  • For other Bowdlerizations and deletions the publishers and their editor are responsible.1912, Jethro Bithell, “Note”, in Contemporary French Poetry. Selected and Translated […] (The Canterbury Poets), London; […]: The Walter…. From the entry bowdlerization
  • We have studied three families with skeletal or cardioskeletal myopathy caused by small in-frame deletions in the desmin gene.2004, A Kaminska et al., “Small deletions disturb desmin architecture leading to breakdown of muscle cells and development of skeletal or…. From the entry cardioskeletal
  • In the case of the trichorhinophalangeal syndrome, gene deletions can cause the disease, which may not be detected by analysis of the panel.2015 September 19, “Use of Targeted Exome Sequencing for Molecular Diagnosis of Skeletal Disorders”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry trichorhinophalangeal

Meaning of deletion

  1. noun An item that has been or will be deleted.
  2. noun The act of deleting.
  3. noun A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome.

Full definition of deletion

Questions about the plural of deletion

What is the plural of deletion?
The plural of deletion is deletions.
Is deletion countable?
Deletion is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deletion (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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