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Vinony

cancellation

noun

  1. ending of a television series due to poor performance
  2. termination of a legal contract
  3. postal marking to deface a stamp and prevent its re-use
  4. ending of an insurance policy
  5. unscheduling of an appointment or other event
  6. cause to be not valid
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kænsəˈleɪʃən/

noun

Etymology: From Latin cancellātiō, from cancellō + -tiō.

  1. The 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.”

  2. The operation of striking out common factors, e.g. in both the dividend and divisor.
  3. A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.
  4. In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent.
  5. The 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 […]”