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