erasure

erase | American Dictionary

erase
verb[ T ]
us/ɪˈreɪs/

eraseverb[T] (DESTROY)

to destroy or remove something completely:
A subdirectory filled with precious data can be erased if you are not careful.

eraseverb[T] (RUB AWAY)

to remove something written or a mark by rubbing:
I kept changing my mind and erasing my answers on the test.

erase | Business English

erase
verb[ T ]
uk /ɪˈreɪz/ us /ɪˈreɪs/
to cancel the effect of an increase or fall in something such as an amount of debt, the price of shares, etc.:
erase a deficit/debt/lossTo erase the budget deficit through cuts alone would mean extreme measures such as shutting prisons and college campuses.
erase a profit/gain
to remove information or data from the place where it was stored:
erase sth from sthFraudulent accounts had been erased from the records.
All personal data is securely erased in accordance with our data protection policy.

Examples of erase

erase
Since t is closed, it cannot be a variable, an erasing construct or a copying construct.
Local histories continue, remodelled, but not erased by globalization.
Six cabins excavated to date had all been consciously erased from the landscape by the evictors.
The texts depicted a progressively law-abiding - majdhub, erasing some of his transgressive aspects.
In adequation, a speaker may use language that erases any discordant elements, playing down any discrepancies.
During -reduction, some parts of a -term are duplicated or erased; those parts are translated into principal nets called coded translations.
Moreover, if there is an interaction, the argument is likely to be duplicated or erased.
The surveyor therefore did not travel alone: he was attended with a retinue of local labourers, who were eventually erased from the account.
The inertia and erasing effects may interact in interesting ways.
They reported that both genes were unmethylated in fetal spermatogonia, suggesting that all pre-existing methylation imprints had already been erased by this developmental stage.
Simplification is expressed as a confluent rewrite strategy which uses three kinds of reductions: ^-reduction, non-erasing reduction, and erasing reduction.
Later perhaps, some properties of these items may be erased from memory because they fall under patterns that the learner has now spotted.
In such types of metasemiotic work, the boundary between language and non-language is erased, yielding stereotypic constructs that motivate one in terms of the other.
Users may register with a number of pseudonyms, essentially erasing the effects of prior feedback.
As mentioned above, family-polymorphic methods are translated to monomorphic methods by discarding type parameterization and erasing types and the method body.
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