annihilation
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˌnaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
annihilation
- The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence
- 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
- the annihilation of a corporation
- The state of being annihilated.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:
- If you ask how religion thus falls on the thorns and faces death, and in the very act annuls annihilation, I cannot explain the matter, for it is religion's secret, and to understand it you must yourself have been a religious man of the extremer type.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:
- (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
- (act of reducing to nothing) extinction, eradication
- (state of being annihilated) extinction
- (act of reducing to nothing) creation, generation
- (state of being annihilated) generation
- French: annihilation
- German: Vernichtung, Zerstörung
- Italian: annientamento, annichilazione, annichilimento
- Portuguese: aniquilação
- Russian: уничтоже́ние
- Spanish: aniquilación
- Italian: annientamento, annichilazione, annichilimento
- Portuguese: aniquilação
- Spanish: aniquilación
- German: Annihilation
- Italian: annientamento, annichilazione, annichilimento
- Portuguese: aniquilação
- Russian: аннигиля́ция
- Spanish: aniquilación
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