cancel

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

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