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
Data erasure (sometimes referred to as data clearing, data wiping, or data destruction) is a software-based method of overwriting the data that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residing on a hard disk drive or other digital media b ...
, a method of software-based overwriting that completely destroys all electronic data
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Erasure channel, a communication channel model wherein errors are described as erasures
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Erasure code
In coding theory, an erasure code is a forward error correction (FEC) code under the assumption of bit erasures (rather than bit errors), which transforms a message of ''k'' symbols into a longer message (code word) with ''n'' symbols such that th ...
, a forward error correction (FEC) code for the binary erasure channel
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Type erasure In programming languages, type erasure is the load-time process by which explicit type annotations are removed from a program, before it is executed at run-time. Operational semantics that do not require programs to be accompanied by types are ca ...
, 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)
Erasure in blazon, the language of heraldry, is the tearing off of part of a charge, leaving a jagged edge of it remaining. In blazons the term is most often found in its adjectival form, erased, and is usually applied to animate charges, most of ...
, 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 ...
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social invisibility
Social invisibility refers to a group of people in the society who have been separated or systematically ignored by the majority of the public. As a result, those who are marginalized feel neglected or being invisible in the society. It can includ ...
, 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 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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