Erasure

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Erasure may refer to:

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Arts and media

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
  • {{lang|la|Damnatio memoriae}}, Latin phrase meaning 'condemnation of memory'
  • LGBT erasure or queer erasure, the removal of evidence of LGBT groups or people and queerness
  • {{lang|fr|Sous rature}}, or 'under erasure', a deconstructionist philosophical device developed by Heidegger and used by Derrida

See also