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:

    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)

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

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