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deletion (s) (noun), deletions (pl)
1. The act of deleting; removal by striking out.
2. Material, such as a word or passage, that has been removed from a body of written or printed matter.
3. Something erased, scored out, or removed from a text or a computer file or directory.
4. In genetics, the loss or absence of part of a chromosome, ranging from a pair of chemicals based pair to a whole chromosomal arm.
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