cancellation

noun
/kænsəˈleɪʃən/US

Etymology

From Latin cancellātiō, from cancellō + -tiō.

  1. borrowed from cancellātiō

Definitions

  1. The act, process, or result of cancelling

    The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

    • Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.
  2. The operation of striking out common factors, e.g. in both the dividend and divisor.

  3. A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party…

      In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent.

    2. The property of being cancellate.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for cancellation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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