cancel
- Verb. (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
- Verb. (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
- Verb. (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
- Verb. (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
- Verb. (transitive) (mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- Verb. (transitive) (media) To stop production of a programme.
- Noun. A cancellation (''US''); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
- Noun. (obsolete) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
- Noun. (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
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