Usually means: Erasing or removing data permanently.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word deleting:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. deleting: Merriam-Webster
  2. deleting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. deleting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Deleting, deleting: Wordnik
  5. deleting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. deleting: Wiktionary
  7. Deleting, deleting: Dictionary.com
  8. deleting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Deleting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Deleting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. deleting: FreeDictionary.org
  12. deleting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deleting: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Deleting: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. deleting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deleting: Medical dictionary

(Note: See delete as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (delete)

verb:  (transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
verb:  (online gaming, slang) To defeat or dominate.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
noun:  (computing) A deletion.
noun:  (recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release.
noun:  (computing) The delete character (U+007F or %7F).
noun:  (computing) A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. The key also erases text from left to right, unlike the backspace key.
noun:  (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Delete [(computing) A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. The key also erases text from left to right, unlike the backspace key.]
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