cancel

To cross out something with lines etc.

A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.

To invalidate or annul something.

He cancelled his order on their website.

"I don't know what your agreement was, Herr Professor, but if it had money in it, cancel it. I want him to learn that lesson, too."

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

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

To offset or equalize something.

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.

Such a 2-handle cancels the 1-handle so the manifold is D⁴.

A cancellation.

A cancellation.

An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.

A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit[…]desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body.

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

The page thus suppressed.

A surname.