deletion

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɪˈliːʃən/
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• Canada, General-American: /dɪˈliʃən/
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• Australian: /dɪˈliːʃən/
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• Australian: [dɪˈlɪiʃən] cultivated
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• New-Zealand: /dəˈliːʃən/
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• rhymes with -iːʃən
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• CMU ARPABET: D IH0 L IY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Latin dēleō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dēlētiōnem English deletion From Latin dēlētiōnem (“destruction, effacement”), from the past-participle stem of dēlēre (“to blot out, destroy, efface”). Equivalent to delete + -ion.

47 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 刪除 /删除 (shānchú) — an item that has been or will be deleted
• Finnish: poisto — an item that has been or will be deleted
• Afrikaans: skrapping — the act of deleting
• Chinese Mandarin: 刪除 /删除 (shānchú) — the act of deleting
• Czech: smazání — the act of deleting
• Czech: vymazání — the act of deleting
• Dutch: verwijdering — the act of deleting
• Esperanto: forigo — the act of deleting
• Finnish: poistaminen — the act of deleting
• Finnish: poisto — the act of deleting
• French: suppression — the act of deleting
• German: Löschung — the act of deleting
• Greek: διαγραφή (diagrafí) — the act of deleting
• Icelandic: eyðing — the act of deleting
• Indonesian: penghapusan — the act of deleting
• Japanese: 削除 (sakujo) — the act of deleting
• Korean: 삭제 (sakje) — the act of deleting
• Norwegian: sletting, stryking — the act of deleting
• Polish: skasowanie — the act of deleting
• Polish: usunięcie — the act of deleting
• Portuguese: exclusão — the act of deleting
• Portuguese: deleção — the act of deleting
• Portuguese: deletamento — the act of deleting
• Russian: удале́ние (udalénije) — the act of deleting
• Russian: стира́ние (stiránije) — the act of deleting
• Spanish: supresión — the act of deleting
• Spanish: borrado — the act of deleting
• Spanish: deleción — the act of deleting
• Spanish: elisión — the act of deleting
• Spanish: borradura — the act of deleting
• Spanish: eliminación — the act of deleting
• Swedish: borttagning — the act of deleting
• Swedish: radering — the act of deleting
• Chinese Mandarin: 刪除 /删除 (shānchú) — mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
• Esperanto: genforigo — mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
• Finnish: poistuma — mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
• French: délétion — mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
• French: cassure chromosomique — mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
• German: Deletion — mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
• Hungarian: deléció — mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
• Indonesian: delesi — mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
• Indonesian: penghapusan — mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
• Italian: delezione — mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
• Japanese: 欠失 (kesshitsu) — mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
• Portuguese: deleção — mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
• Russian: деле́ция (delécija) — mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
• Spanish: deleción — mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome