excision

Plural: excisions

Noun

• The act of cutting out or removing something.
• the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
  • "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"
• surgical removal of a body part or tissue
• 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
• the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence
• The removal of some text during editing.
• The removal of something (a tumor or body part) by cutting.
• The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material.
• 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.

Examples

• The EXCISION of a blocked path allowed for a new, higher-scoring word to emerge.

Synonyms

ablation, cut, cutting out, deletion, deracination, excommunication, extirpation, -ectomy, resection