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UK
/dɪlˈiːʃən/
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[ US /dɪˈɫiʃən/ ]
[ US /dɪˈɫiʃən/ ]
NOUN
- (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome
- any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases
- the act of deleting something written or printed
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the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors
both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause
How To Use deletion In A Sentence
- This non-automatic numbering has the advantage that if a text refers to the numbers, insertion or deletion of an item does not disturb the correspondence.
- We can also determine parent of origin for deletions and uniparental disomy. Cytogenomics Lab
- Periods and hyphens indicate, respectively, base identities and deletions.
- In fact, some individuals may hide the true facts of a product's performance to ensure that deletion is not considered at all.
- The deletions went beyond the typical commercially sensitive information, to embarrassing findings that the company didn't want released.
- The final tasks included matching of beginning sounds and ending sounds, awareness of rhyme, and phoneme deletion.
- The man Christ's voluntary and most innocent, most shameful, and most cruel death on the Cross was the deletion and purgation of, and the satisfaction for, all the carnal desires of human nature.
- They also unequivocally demonstrate that noticeable change can emerge on its own by summing up the steady unnoticeable work of incremental deletions of the unfit.
- With this deletion, the chimeric virus was less able to replicate itself when injected into the monkeys.
- An integrated map of all 21 chromosomes based on 436 deletion lines was constructed.