Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The operation of deleting data.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo remove (markings or information). · To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize. · To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite. · To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Italic *razdō Latin radō Latin ērādō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin ērāsusder. English erase From Latin ērāsus, past participle of ērādere (“to scrape, to abrade”), from ex- (“out of”) + radere (“to scrape”). Compare Middle English arasen, aracen (“to eradicate, erase”). Displaced native Old English dilegian.
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