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 (singer), Andy Bell and songwriter, producer and keyboardist Vince Clarke, previously co-founder of the band Depeche Mode and ...
, an English pop group
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''Erasure'' (album), 1995, by the British group Erasure
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Erasure poetry, 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, 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
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 not requiring programs to be accompanied by types are named ...
, a process by which explicit type annotations are removed from a program
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Zeroisation, 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 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 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)
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Erased (disambiguation)
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Eraser (disambiguation)
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Deletion (disambiguation)
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