n. Latticework, or one of the cross-bars in latticework; a latticework or grated inclosure; hence, a barrier; a limit.n. [⟨ cancel, v.] In printing, a page, sheet, or other part of a printed work suppressed and destroyed before publication; the act of rejecting a part of a printed work.n. [⟨ cancel, v.] In music, the sign ♯, when used to nullify the effect of a sharp or a flat previously occurring either in the signature or as an accidental.To inclose with latticework or a railing.To draw lines across (something written) so as to deface; blot out or obliterate: as, to cancel several lines in a manuscript.To annul or destroy; make void; set aside: as, to cancel a debt or an engagement.In mathematics, to strike out or eliminate, as a number or quantity constituting a common factor in a dividend and divisor or the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or a common term in the two members of an equation.In printing, to strike out, reject, or throw aside, as some portion of a printed work.In music, to suspend the power of (a sharp or a flat) by inserting the sign ♯.Repeal, Rescind, etc. See abolish.To become obliterated or void.n. An order canceling or countermanding a previous order.In printing, to mark on copy or proof (words or lines that are to be omitted).In bookbinding, to destroy (a leaf or section that is to be entirely suppressed).