データやファイルの一部または全部を消去することを表わす.
入力済みのテキストの全体又は一部分を,利用者が消去することのできる機能又はモード.
出典:Wiktionary
From Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from dēlēvī, originally perf. tense of dēlinere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”). Original sense first appears c. 1495. In common use for ordering the absence of features of products (such as automobiles) in the 1960s. Computing sense, including the noun form, first appears c. 1977 in Software: Practice & Experience.
delete (三人称単数 現在形 deletes, 現在分詞 deleting, 過去形および過去分詞形 deleted)