Used in a Sentence

cancellation

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for cancellation.

Editorial note

The alternative is to add a bunch of methods to the card class to handle the cancellation logic.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cancellation gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

(philately) A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.

noun

(mathematics) The operation of striking out common factors, e.g. in both the dividend and divisor.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cancellation.

noun

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

noun

(philately) A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.

noun

(mathematics) The operation of striking out common factors, e.g. in both the dividend and divisor.

noun

(anatomy) The property of being cancellate.

Example sentences

1

The alternative is to add a bunch of methods to the card class to handle the cancellation logic.

2

It allowed us to abstract some patterns into 'compiler extensions' for things like scoping, timeouts and cancellation, etc.

3

Wearing comfortable large headphones with quiet ambient noise and active noise cancellation causes you pain in your inner ear?

4

Worse, the more people who refrain from preparing, the better the odds are of getting a postponement or cancellation.

5

Cost ($0.50 over 10 million phones adds up) and CPU/DSP power to perform the cancellation.

6

He is credited with saving EarthBound from cancellation by joining the programming team.

7

I wonder if Bose is doing something beyond noise-cancellation in the QC25s when you turn them on.

8

Yeah, I remember wanting to do a fan-out pattern in Go and reading the Go Pipelines and Cancellation article[0].

9

I think the GP would have been fine forfeiting what he had paid for a cancellation.

10

If Uber shortened their cancellation window, I probably wouldn't even try to use it at all.

11

Middle ear, and no active noise cancellation is even needed.

12

The game went through a troubled development and if you trust the impressions of Itoi, the lead designer, Iwata's incredible skills saved the game from cancellation.

Quote examples

1

His spokesperson says the cancellation is because of "all the events going on with the summit", whatever exactly that means.

2

The customer, on the other hand, "does not have to supply evidence that you received a cancellation notice".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use cancellation in a sentence?

The alternative is to add a bunch of methods to the card class to handle the cancellation logic.

What does cancellation mean?

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

What part of speech is cancellation?

cancellation is commonly used as noun.