cancellation

plural cancellations · alternative US cancelation

1. countableuncountableThe act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

   Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.

   2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3

   Synonyms: annulment, revocation, stoppage, termination, abolition, abrogation, annulment, deauthentication

2. countableuncountablemathematicsThe operation of striking out common factors, e.g. in both the dividend and divisor.
3. countableuncountablehobbiesA postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.
4. countableuncountablelawIn United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent.
5. countableuncountableanatomyThe property of being cancellate.

   194?, Columbia University. School of Dental and Oral Surgery, Principles of Radiodontia Spongy bone is composed of cancellated areas appearing as a fine, interlacing network. These cancellated spaces are irregular both in size and shape. The normal cancellation is rather large […]