Annihilation

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act or process of annihilating.
  • noun. The condition of having been annihilated; utter destruction.
  • noun. The phenomenon in which a particle and an antiparticle, such as an electron and a positron, meet and are converted to a combination of energy or energetic particles approximately equivalent to the sum of their masses.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of annihilating or of reducing to nothing or non-existence, or the state of being reduced to nothing.
  • noun. The act of destroying the form of a thing or the combination of parts which constitute it, or the state of being so destroyed: as, the annihilation of a corporation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it.
  • noun. The state of being annihilated.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.
  • noun. The state of being annihilated.
  • noun. The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. total destruction
  • noun. destruction by annihilating something
  • Word Usage
    "I flicked through some of my stories to see what I did to my characters and the annihilation is there."
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