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 (18091883)
“Every bondman in his own hand bears
The power to cancel his captivity.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)