Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of erasing.
- noun A mark showing that something has been erased.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of erasing, or rubbing or scraping out or off; obliteration. Also
erasion . - noun An instance of erasing, or that which has been erased, scratched out, or obliterated; the place where something has been erased or obliterated: as, there were several erasures in the document.
- noun The act of razing or destroying to the foundation; total destruction: as, the erasure of cities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.
- noun the place where something has been erased.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
- noun The state of having been erased; total blankness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a surface area where something has been erased
- noun a correction made by erasing
- noun deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
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Examples
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(Probably why the Minnesota Courts now claim not to do expulsions; with modern databases, erasure is effectively not possible.) htom (Quote)
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The erasure is a fact, a sad one of neglect or even of vandalism.
Orwell and Bohemia 1994
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Another example of this erasure is ‘Daisy’ Dube’s murder on 12 June 2008.
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The binding of individuals into a collective mind, he insisted, does not entail the erasure of individuality.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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The binding of individuals into a collective mind, he insisted, does not entail the erasure of individuality.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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The most common reason I heard for the erasure was a reactionary urge that was easy to resent: "They're essentially moving it because they don't want to look at girls dressed like sluts," said Calisha Jenkins, one of the organizers of the December 19 ride.
Nathan Schneider: What Hipsters Can Learn From Hasids About the Bedford Bike Lane 2010
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The most common reason I heard for the erasure was a reactionary urge that was easy to resent: "They're essentially moving it because they don't want to look at girls dressed like sluts," said Calisha Jenkins, one of the organizers of the December 19 ride.
What Hipsters Can Learn From Hasids About the Bedford Bike Lane 2010
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The most common reason I heard for the erasure was a reactionary urge that was easy to resent: "They're essentially moving it because they don't want to look at girls dressed like sluts," said Calisha Jenkins, one of the organizers of the December 19 ride.
Nathan Schneider: What Hipsters Can Learn From Hasids About the Bedford Bike Lane 2009
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The approach is somewhat similar to the social P2P storage solution Wua.la that Om reviewed last year on GigaOM, including the fact that both use so-called erasure codes for redundancy.
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A more successful approach to changing identity or at least dealing with unpleasant memories other than artificial represson or so-called erasure would be to change how we relate to our memories.
Life of Brian: 2005
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