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soft deletion

soft deletion noun: an operation in which a flag is used to mark data as unusable, without erasing the data itself from the database.

Noun

soft deletion (countable and uncountable, plural soft deletions)

  1. An operation in which a flag is used to mark data as unusable, without erasing the data itself from the database.
    Antonyms:
    hard deletion

Antonyms of soft deletion

Forms of soft deletion

pluralsoft deletions

Questions about soft deletion

What does soft deletion mean?
Soft deletion means an operation in which a flag is used to mark data as unusable, without erasing the data itself from the database.
What part of speech is soft deletion?
Soft deletion is a noun.
What is the plural of soft deletion?
The plural of soft deletion is soft deletions.

Words near soft deletion in the dictionary

  1. soft counts
  2. soft coup
  3. soft coups
  4. soft cs
  5. soft delete
  6. soft deletion
  7. soft deletions
  8. soft determinism
  9. soft determinist
  10. soft determinists
  11. soft dollars

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