Definitions for deletion

deletion de·le·tion

Spelling: [dih-lee-shuh n]
IPA: /dɪˈli ʃən/

Deletion is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 269 anagrams from letters in deletion (deeilnot).

Definitions for deletion

noun

  1. an act or instance of deleting.
  2. the state of being deleted.
  3. a deleted word, passage, etc.
  4. Genetics. a type of chromosomal aberration in which a segment of the chromosome is removed or lost.

Origin of deletion

1580-90; Latin dēlētiōn- (stem of dēlētiō) a destroying, equivalent to dēlēt(us) (see delete) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for deletion

If he should perish through the deletion of this creature, she would account herself his slayer.

What does it mean, really, if your 14-week-old fetus has a deletion on chromosome 12?

Of course, Miss Deane does wisely to let us have the deletion.

"You have not considered that the deletion you intend will destroy my father," she said quietly.

Cordelia calmly insisted on the deletion of the newly inserted paragraph surrendering the dramatic rights of the book.

There is no deletion and nothing more to add other than that other matter we have been talking about?

Yet I am thankful that it was not by your deletion that he was taken.

We should in vain look for an example in the Spanish deportation or deletion of the Moors.

With this exception, and the deletion of two insignificant footnotes, no changes have been made.

Despite its deletion, the villagers of Calcata hold their annual procession each year.

Word Value for deletion
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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