Cancel, cancellation, or cancelled may refer to:

Business

  • Project cancellation, in government and industry
  • Cancellation (mail), a postal marking applied to a stamp or stationery indicating the item has been used
  • Cancellation (insurance), the termination of an insurance policy
  • Flight cancellation and delay, not operating a scheduled flight

Sociology

  • Cancel culture, boycotting and ostracism calling out offensive behavior on social media or in real life

Technology and science

  • Cancel leaf, a bibliographic term for replaced leaves in printed books
  • Cancellation property, the mathematical property if a×b = a×c then b = c
  • Cancelling out, a technique for simplifying mathematical expressions
  • Catastrophic cancellation, numerical error arising from subtracting approximations to nearby numbers
  • Noise cancellation, a method for reducing unwanted sound
  • Phase cancellation, the effect of two waves that are out of phase with each other being summed
  • Cancel message, a special message used to remove Usenet articles posted to news servers
  • Cancel character, an indication that transmitted data are in error or are to be disregarded
  • Resolution rule, in propositional logic a valid inference rule that produces a new clause by two clauses containing complementary literals.
  • Cancellable (linguistics), a property of implicatures and presuppositions

Entertainment

  • Cancellation (television), the termination of a television series
  • "Cancelled" (South Park), a 2003 episode of the TV series South Park
  • Cancelled (Shameless), an episode of the American TV series Shameless
  • "Canceled" (Nikita), a 2013 episode of Nikita
  • "Canceled" (song), a 2020 song by Larray
  • Cancelled (EP), a 2024 EP by Mötley Crüe
  • Canceled (film), a Swedish horror film
  • "Cancelled!", a song by Taylor Swift from the 2025 album The Life of a Showgirl

People and characters

  • Robinson Cancel (born 1976), baseball catcher
  • Rafael Cancel Miranda (born 1930), political activist
  • An alternate name for the archangel Camael

Government

  • Cancellation of removal, a form of immigration relief available to aliens in the United States who be otherwise inadmissible or deportable
  • Cancellation of nationality

See also

  • Mitigation
  • Nullification (disambiguation)