Erasure

Erasure may refer to:

Arts and media

• Erasure (duo), an English pop group
• Erasure (album), 1995, by the British group Erasure
• Erasure poetry, a form of found poetry created by erasing words from an existing text
• Erasure (novel), 2001, by Percival Everett

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

See also

• Erase (disambiguation)
• Erased (disambiguation)
• Eraser (disambiguation)
• Deletion (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Erasure
• All pages with titles containing Erasure