erasure

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The state of having been erased; total blankness
The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration
{n} a blotting out, expunging
An instance of erasing; also, the place where something has been erased
A process by which data recorded on storage media is removed
The decision to read a signifier or a text as if its meaning were clear, with the understanding that this is only a strategy
{i} rubbing out, deletion, eradication
a correction made by erasing; "there were many erasures in the typescript"
The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration
a correction made by erasing; "there were many erasures in the typescript
deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
a surface area where something has been erased; "another word had been written over the erasure"
a surface area where something has been erased; "another word had been written over the erasure" a correction made by erasing; "there were many erasures in the typescript
A process by which a signal recorded on a stripe is removed Erasure may be accomplished in two ways: in AC erasure, the stripe is demagnetized by an alternating field which is reduced in amplitude from an initially high value; in DC erasure the stripe is saturated by applying a unidirectional field
The erasure of something is the removal, loss, or destruction of it. a further erasure of the UK's thin manufacturing base. when you erase something, or when something is erased
under erasure
Of a bit of text, written and strickenthrough; hence, figuratively in some sense both present and absent

It was to acknowledge this difficulty that Heidegger proposed in Zur Seinsfrage (1955) to write “Being” under erasure, so that the visible crossing-out of the word would display its negation as an act taking place within time.

erasures
plural of erasure