Cancellation: Definition and part of speech

Cancellation

  1. n. The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.
  2. n. The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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