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Definition of Erasure

1. Noun. A correction made by erasing. "There were many erasures in the typescript"

2. Noun. A surface area where something has been erased. "Another word had been written over the erasure"

3. Noun. Deletion by an act of expunging or erasing.

Definition of Erasure

1. n. The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

2. n. An instance of erasing; also, the place where something has been erased.

Definition of Erasure

1. Noun. The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration. ¹

2. Noun. The state of having been erased; total blankness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Erasure

1. the act of erasing [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Erasure

eraser eraser pen eraser pens eraserlike erasers erases erasin erasing erasions erastai

erastes erastian erasure (current term) erasure code erasure codes erasures eratapokriseis erathem erathems erb

erbia erbian erbias erbium erbium oxide erbiums

Literary usage of Erasure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cases on the Law of Suretyship by Clinton De Witt (1920)
"This 'erasure was made in the presence of and at the suggestion of one Stafford, ... Such erasure was made without the knowledge or consent of the four ..."

2. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"If an alteration or erasure has been made in any instrument subsequent to its execution, ... It was formerly considered that an alteration, erasure, ..."

3. A Treatise Upon Wills and Codicils: With an Appendix of the Statutes, and a by William Roberts (1809)
"Alteration and erasure, A WILL is not revoked by alteration or erasure, but to the extent of the particular object of such alteration or erasure; ..."

4. The Law and Practice Relating to Letters Patent for Inventions by Roger William Wallace, John Bruce Williamson (1900)
"The Registrar shall erase from the Register the name of any erasure of ... If any registered person shall not, within one month from the erasure of day on ..."

5. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by House of Lords, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1857)
"The whole of these words were written upon an erasure. ... In the testing clause no notice of this erasure was taken, although allusion was made to the ..."

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