Erasure

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Erasure may refer to:

Arts and media

  • Erasure (duo), an English pop group
  • Erasure (album), 1995, by the British group Erasure
  • Erasure poetry, a form of found poetry created by erasing words from an existing text
  • Erasure (novel), 2001, by Percival Everett

Science and technology

  • Data erasure, a method of software-based overwriting that completely destroys all electronic data
  • Erasure channel, a communication channel model wherein errors are described as erasures
  • Erasure code, a forward error correction (FEC) code for the binary erasure channel
  • Type erasure, a process by which explicit type annotations are removed from a program
  • Zeroisation, a process of erasing sensitive data stored electronically by overwriting it

Other uses

  • Erasure (heraldry), the removal of portions of charges in heraldry
  • Social amnesia or social invisibility, the separation or systematic ignoring of a history or a group of people
    • Damnatio memoriae, Latin phrase meaning 'condemnation of memory'
    • LGBT erasure or queer erasure, the removal of evidence of LGBT groups or people and queerness
  • Sous rature, or 'under erasure', a deconstructionist philosophical device developed by Heidegger and used by Derrida

See also

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  • Erase (disambiguation)
  • Erased (disambiguation)
  • Eraser (disambiguation)
  • Deletion (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Erasure
  • All pages with titles containing Erasure
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