Cancel

Cancel or cancellation may refer to:

Business
  • Cancellation (mail), a postal marking applied to a stamp or stationery indicating that the item has been used
  • Cancellation (insurance), the termination of an insurance policy
Technology and science
  • Cancels, a bibliographic term for replaced leaves in printed books
  • Cancellation property, the mathematical property that if a * b = a * c then b = c
  • Loss of significance, cumulative errors incurred when doing calculations with floating-point numbers
  • Noise cancellation, a method for reducing unwanted sound
  • Phase cancellation, the effect of two waves that are out of phase with each other being summed
  • Cancel message, a special message used to remove Usenet articles posted to news servers
  • Cancel character, an indication that transmitted data are in error or are to be disregarded
Entertainment
  • Cancellation (television), the termination of a television series
  • "Cancelled" (South Park), an episode of the TV series South Park
People and characters
  • Robinson Cancel (born 1976), baseball catcher
  • An alternate name for the archangel Camael
Government
  • Cancellation of removal, a form of immigration relief available to aliens in the United States who be otherwise inadmissible or deportable

Famous quotes containing the word cancel:

    Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    The moving finger writes; and having writ,
    Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
    Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
    Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
    Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883)

    Every bondman in his own hand bears
    The power to cancel his captivity.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)