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cancel

/ˈkænsl̩/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
  2. An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
  3. The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
  4. The page thus suppressed.
  5. The page that replaces it.
  6. To cross out something with lines etc.
  7. To invalidate or annul something.
  8. To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
  9. To offset or equalize something.
  10. To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
  11. To stop production of a programme.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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