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Excision

//ɪkˈsɪʒən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The removal of some text during editing. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence wordnet
  3. 3
    The removal of something (a tumor or body part) by cutting. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society wordnet
  5. 5
    The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    surgical removal of a body part or tissue wordnet
  2. 7
    The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is unchanged by the identification of a subspace of the latter to a point. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French excision, from Latin excīsiō(n).

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