cancels

noun

(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

(printing) The page thus suppressed.

(printing) The page that replaces it.

(US) A cancellation.

A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.

A surname.

(obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.

verb

(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.

(transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.

(transitive, neologism) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable); to disinvite. Compare cancel culture.

(transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.

(transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.

(transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.

(transitive) To offset or equalize something.

(slang) To kill.

(printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

(obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

Roots

cancellicancel- · Latin · lattice, crossbars

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