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soft deletion

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English

Syllables
soft- dele-tion
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An operation in which a flag is used to mark data as unusable, without erasing the data itself from the database.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

soft deletions (plural)

Phrases

soft-delete

Frequently Paired Words

soft-delete

Antonyms

hard deletion

Questions

What does soft deletion mean?
An operation in which a flag is used to mark data as unusable, without erasing the data itself from the database.

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