Phrase Hound found 7 phrases and 15 compound words that contain deletion. The most common are listed below. Open deletion in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 7
- speedy deletionThe immediate deletion of one or more pages without having a discussion on whether to keep or to delete, almost always if the page is obviously worthy of uncontroversial deletion.
- left-edge deletionIn informal English, ellipsis at the start of an utterance or sentence.
- whiz deletionA form of ellipsis in which a relative pronoun and a form of the verb “to be” are both deleted.
- schwa deletionThe phenomenon of the dropping of the orthographic inherent vowel in speech, in Indo-Aryan languages that use abugidas.
- hard deletionAn operation in which data is erased from the database.
- self-deletionAn act of suicide; an act of taking one's own life.
- soft deletionAn operation in which a flag is used to mark data as unusable, without erasing the data itself from the database.
Compound words 15
- indelEither an insertion or deletion mutation in the genetic code.
- undeletionRestoration of previously deleted content.
- homodeletionA type of chromosomal deletion where both copies (alleles) of a particular DNA sequence are lost from an individual's genome.
- autodeletionAutomatic deletion; the process of autodeleting.
- codeletionThe deletion of two genes simultaneously
- deletionalRelating to deletion.
- megadeletionThe deletion of many genes
- nondeletionThe absence of a deletion.
- subdeletionA partial deletion.
- transdeletionThe process of forming an anagram of a word with one letter deleted (e.g. indicator from dictionary), a form of recreational wordplay.