cancellation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: can=cel=la=tion
• COUNT in NET: 5 in 4 verses (in OT : 5 in 4 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

cancellation, n. [L. cancellatio: cf. F. cancellation.].

•  The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.  [1913 Webster]
•  The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cancellation, n.
1 the act or an instance of cancelling or being cancelled.
2 something that has been cancelled, esp. a booking or reservation.

Etymology

L cancellatio (as CANCEL)

THESAURUS

cancellation

abandonment, abbreviation, abolishment, abolition, abridgment, abrogation, annulment, arabesque, basketry, basketwork, blot, blotting, blotting out, blue-penciling, bowdlerization, cancel, canceling, cancelling, cassation, censoring, censorship, cessation, counterbalancing, countermand, counterorder, cross-hatching, crossing-out, defeasance, deletion, discontinuance, editing, effacement, elimination, erasure, expunction, expurgation, filigree, frank, fret, fretwork, frustration, grace period, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hatching, interlacement, intertexture, intertwinement, invalidation, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, mesh, meshes, meshwork, moratorium, net, netting, network, neutralization, nullification, obliteration, offsetting, omission, plexure, plexus, postage, postage stamp, postmark, raddle, recall, recantation, renege, repeal, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, riddle, screen, screening, scrubbing, setting aside, sieve, stamp, stoppage, striking, suppression, suspension, termination, texture, thwarting, tissue, tracery, trellis, trelliswork, undoing, vacation, vacatur, vitiation, voidance, voiding, waiver, waiving, washing out, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, wicker, wickerwork, wiping out, withdrawal, write-off

ROGET THESAURUS

cancellation

Obliteration

N obliteration, erasure, rasure, cancel, cancellation, circumduction, deletion, blot, tabula rasa, effacement, extinction, obliterated, out of print, printless, leaving no trace, intestate, unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten, Int, dele, out with it!, delenda est Carthago.