Annihilation, in physics, is an effect that occurs when a particle collides with an antiparticle. Annihilation may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

* ''Annihilation'' (comics), a Marvel Comics 2006 event featuring several cosmic characters **'' Annihilation: Conquest'', a 2007 series featuring similar themes and marketed as a sequel of the above comic book series

Literature

* ''Annihilation'' (Forgotten Realms novel), a 2004 novel by Philip Athans set in the Forgotten Realms universe * ''Annihilation'' (VanderMeer novel), a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer and the first entry in the Southern Reach Trilogy

Films

* ''Annihilation'' (film), a 2018 film based on VanderMeer's novel *'' Mortal Kombat: Annihilation'', the sequel to ''Mortal Kombat''

Games

* Annihilation, a map pack for '' Call of Duty: Black Ops''

Music

* ''Annihilation'' (album), 2001 Rebaelliun album *"Annihilation", a song from the album ''Dehumanization'' by Crucifix

Law

Family annihilation A familicide is a type of murder or murder-suicide in which one kills multiple close family members in quick succession, most often children, spouses, siblings, or parents. In half the cases, the killer lastly kills themselves in a murder-sui ...

, the act of killing everyone in a family.

Logic and mathematics

* Annihilation, an operation in

classical logic Classical logic (or standard logic or Frege-Russell logic) is the intensively studied and most widely used class of deductive logic. Classical logic has had much influence on analytic philosophy. Characteristics Each logical system in this class ...

* Creation and annihilation operators, mathematical operators utilized in the field of quantum mechanics