1 the act of removing recordings or information from a magnetic tape or disk:
2 the act of causing a feeling, memory, or period of time to be completely forgotten:
He laments Virginia's erasure from popular history as the birthplace of English America.
the nuclear erasure of entire populations
Total assimilation would require the erasure of his past, his traditions, in fact all his origins.
He deplores the erasure of historical memory, and the three-second attention span induced by the mass media.
He is a cognitive neuroscientist studying the roles of sleep and dreaming in off-line memory reprocessing, including off-line memory consolidation, transfer, integration, and erasure.
According to his own theory, the effort of causal recognition collides with a constant erasure organised by the creator.
At run-time, computation is essentially performed on the single untyped term that is the type erasure of all the typeannotated components of a virtual tuple.
The fact that virtual tuples, virtual case expressions, and coercions are erased by type erasure underscores the virtual nature of these constructs.
The erasure of a nested class declaration consists of the erasures of its fields, constructor and method declarations.
