The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration. / The state of having been erased; total blankness. / The place where something has been erased.

plural of erasure

(idiomatic) Of a piece of text, written and struck through; hence, figuratively in some sense both present and absent.

plural of erasure code

(information theory) A forward-error-correction (FEC) code for the binary erasure channel, which transforms a message of k symbols into a longer message with n symbols such that the original message can be recovered from a subset of the n symbols.

plural of type erasure

(software) A compile-time process by which explicit data type annotations are removed from a program, before run-time execution.

(LGBT) The tendency to ignore, deny, or minimize the existence of bisexuals and/or bisexuality.

(LGBT) The tendency to ignore, deny, or minimize the existence of transsexual/transgender people or transness.