deletion

From Latin dēlētiōnem (“destruction, effacement”), from the past-participle stem of dēlēre (“to blot out, destroy, efface”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈliːʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːʃən

English Wikipedia has an article on:

deletion

Wikipedia

deletion (countable and uncountable, plural deletions)

1. An item that has been or will be deleted. [1580s^[1]]
2. The act of deleting. [c. 1600^[1]]

   Hyponym: redeletion

3. (genetics) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome.
4. (Internet slang) An act of killing or murder.

• entoiled