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noun

• A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).

• An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.

• The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

• The page thus suppressed.

• The page that replaces it.

verb

• To cross out something with lines etc.

• To invalidate or annul something.

  Example: He cancelled his order on their website.

• To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.

  Example: This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.

• To offset or equalize something.

  Example: The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.

• To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.

• To stop production of a programme.

• To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

• To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

• To kill.

• To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.