Erasure may refer to:
Arts and media
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Erasure (duo)
Erasure () are an English synth-pop duo formed in London in 1985, consisting of lead vocalist and songwriter Andy Bell with songwriter, producer and keyboardist Vince Clarke, previously known as co-founder of the band Depeche Mode and a membe ...
, an English pop group
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''Erasure'' (album), 1995, by the British group Erasure
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Erasure poetry
Erasure is a form of found poetry or found object art created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem. The results can be allowed to stand ''in situ'' or they can be arranged into lin ...
, a form of found poetry created by erasing words from an existing text
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''Erasure'' (novel), 2001, by Percival Everett
Science and technology
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Data erasure, a method of software-based overwriting that completely destroys all electronic data
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Erasure channel
In coding theory and information theory, a binary erasure channel (BEC) is a communications channel model. A transmitter sends a bit (a zero or a one), and the receiver either receives the bit correctly, or with some probability P_e receives a me ...
, a communication channel model wherein errors are described as erasures
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Erasure code, a forward error correction (FEC) code for the binary erasure channel
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Type erasure, a process by which explicit type annotations are removed from a program
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Zeroisation
In cryptography, zeroisation (also spelled zeroization) is the practice of erasing sensitive parameters (electronically stored data, cryptographic keys, and critical security parameters) from a cryptographic module to prevent their disclosure if t ...
, a process of erasing sensitive data stored electronically by overwriting it
Other uses
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Erasure (heraldry), the removal of portions of charges in heraldry
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Social amnesia
Social amnesia is a collective forgetting by a group of people. The concept is often cited in relation to Russell Jacoby's scholarship from the 1970s. Social amnesia can be a result of "forcible repression" of memories, ignorance, changing circums ...
or
social invisibility, the separation or systematic ignoring of a history or a group of people
** , Latin phrase meaning 'condemnation of memory'
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LGBT erasure
LGBT erasure (also known as queer erasure) refers to the tendency to remove lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual and queer groups or people (i.e. the LGBT community) intentionally or unintentionally from record, or to dismiss or downpla ...
or queer erasure, the removal of evidence of LGBT groups or people and queerness
* , or 'under erasure', a deconstructionist philosophical device developed by Heidegger and used by Derrida
See also
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Erase (disambiguation)
Erase may refer to:
*Data erasure, a method of software-based overwriting that completely destroys all electronic data
*Data remanence, the residual representation of data that has been, in some way, nominally erased or removed
* ''Erase'' (album ...
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Erased (disambiguation)
Erased may refer to:
* "Erased", a 2002 song by Paradise Lost from '' Symbol of Life''
* "Erased", a 2009 song by Dead by April from ''Dead by April''
* ''Erased'' (manga), a 2012 Japanese manga series by Kei Sanbe which received an anime televis ...
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Eraser (disambiguation)
An eraser is a tool for removing marks made by pencil, pen, chalk or art brushes.
Eraser(s) or The Eraser(s) may also refer to:
Music
*Erasers, an American punk band (1977–1981) fronted by Susan Beschta
* ''The Eraser'', 2006 album by Thom Yo ...
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Deletion (disambiguation)
Deletion or delete may refer to:
Computing
* File deletion, a way of removing a file from a computer's file system
* Code cleanup, a way of removing unnecessary variables, data structures, cookies, and temporary files in a programming language
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