different between cancellation vs undoing

English

Alternative forms

• cancelation (US)

Etymology

cancel +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kæns??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

cancellation (countable and uncountable, plural cancellations)

1. The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
2. (mathematics) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.
3. (philately) A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.
4. (law) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent.
5. (anatomy) The property of being cancellate.
   • 194?, Columbia University. School of Dental and Oral Surgery, Principles of Radiodontia

     Spongy bone is composed of cancellated areas appearing as a fine, interlacing network. These cancellated spaces are irregular both in size and shape. The normal cancellation is rather large […]

Related terms

• cancel
• killer cancel

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?du???/

Etymology 1

From Middle English undoinge, undoynge, ondoynge; equivalent to undo +? -ing.

Noun

undoing (plural undoings)

1. The act of loosening or unfastening
2. Ruin; defeat, (also) that which causes defeat or ruin.

   His fatal flaw was his undoing. In a sense he defeated himself.

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5:

     So far as the ape was concerned, Sabor reasoned correctly. The little fellow crouched trembling just an instant, but that instant was quite long enough to prove his undoing.
3. Annulment; reversal

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English undoynge, undoand, from Old English und?nde (“undoing”), from Proto-Germanic *andad?ndz, present participle of *andad?n? (“to undo”). Cognate with Dutch ontdoend (“undoing”).

Verb

undoing

1. present participle of undo

Anagrams

• ounding