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Abrasion vs Erasure - What's the difference?

abrasion | erasure |

As nouns the difference between abrasion and erasure

is that abrasion is abrasion while erasure is the action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.

abrasion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
  • (obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
  • (geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
  • An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
  • (medicine) A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
  • (dentistry) The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * abrade

    See also

    * contusion * laceration

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    erasure

    English

    Noun

  • The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
  • The state of having been erased; total blankness.
  • *
  • (sociology) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
    • bisexual erasure

    Synonyms

    * (action of erasing) cancelation (US), cancellation (British), canceling (US), cancelling (British), deleting]], deletion, erasing, obliterating, obliteration, [[wipe, wiping * (state of having been erased) blankness