Deletions

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The action of actively removing text or information, often leading to revised versions or edits
2. Instances where portions of text or data are purposefully taken out from a document or record
3. The process involving elimination of certain written or stored material to alter content or structure

Etymology: The word "deletion" is a plain Latin inheritance with a telling origin: it comes from "dēlētiōnem," meaning "destruction" or "effacement," and the Latin verb behind it, "dēlēre," meant "to blot out" or "to destroy." The sense of erasing writing is the older physical one. Wax tablets and manuscripts were literally blotted out, and the Roman word carried the heavier idea of wiping something from existence. English took the word through the Latin stem "delete," which is the verb it is built on, with the suffix "-ion" added to form a noun of action. So the modern sense of removing text from a document or file is a narrowing of a much broader Roman idea of annihilation, now applied to something as small as a sentence.

Synonyms: removals, exclusions, erasure, abrogations, cancellations

Antonyms: additions, inclusions, insertions, augmentations, enhancements