▸ noun: A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
▸ noun: (archaic) Monumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side.
▸ noun: (astronomy) Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
▸ noun: (geology) Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
▸ noun: (computing) Memory that has been erased and re-written.
▸ noun: (cultural studies) The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one.
▸ noun: Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form.
▸ verb: To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse.
▸ verb: On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day.reinscription, archaeologies, fabulation, reconstructable, fragment, recontextualization, reinscribe, pentimento, reconstructible, erasure, more...
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