Definitions for deletions

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deletions de·le·tion

Spelling: [dih-lee-shuh n]

IPA: /dɪˈli ʃən/

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

You can make 581 anagrams from letters in deletions (deeilnost).

Definitions for deletions

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 deletions

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

Examples for deletions

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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