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What does cancel mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cancel? Here's what it means.

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