deletion
Origin of deletion
Examples from the Web for deletion
Contemporary Examples of deletion
What does it mean, really, if your 14-week-old fetus has a deletion on chromosome 12?
New Finding That Testing Could Identify Defects in Fetuses Is a Genetics Baby StepKent Sepkowitz
June 8, 2012
Despite its deletion, the villagers of Calcata hold their annual procession each year.
Historical Examples of deletion
Yet I am thankful that it was not by your deletion that he was taken.
The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second SeriesRafael Sabatini
Of course, Miss Deane does wisely to let us have the deletion.
Seeing Things at NightHeywood Broun
Cordelia calmly insisted on the deletion of the newly inserted paragraph surrendering the dramatic rights of the book.
The Silver PoppyArthur Stringer
There is no deletion and nothing more to add other than that other matter we have been talking about?
Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15)The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
With this exception, and the deletion of two insignificant footnotes, no changes have been made.
The Task of Social HygieneHavelock Ellis
deletion
- the act of deleting or fact of being deleted
- a deleted passage, word, etc, in text
- the loss or absence of a section of a chromosome
Word Origin and History for deletion
1580s, from Latin deletionem (nominative deletio), noun of action from past participle stem of delere (see delete).
deletion
(dĭ-lē′shən)- Loss, as from mutation, of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome.