To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.
Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
The process of removing information from memory or storage. Part of a file or image may be erased.
Deletes one or more files.
Electronic removal of program elements from a recorded tape.
To remove or replace magnetized spots from a storage medium.
remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
wipe out magnetically recorded information
A procedure for removing media from a video program, leaving black space (called filler) in its place to maintain the spacing and length of the entire program. Sometimes called a non-ripple edit.
To be deleted; to die. RB: 1
to remove data or files from memory without replacing them; to delete
To remove text from a data medium, leaving the medium available for recording new text. See also delete.
To remove information stored on a storage device; same as delete.
The same as delete, but more often used when dealing with magnetic media.
to remove previously written data
vb. To remove data permanently from a storage medium. This is usually done by replacing existing data with zeros or meaningless text or, in magnetic media, by disturbing the magnetic particles' physical arrangement, either with the erase head or with a large magnet. Erase differs from delete in that delete merely tells the computer that data or a file is no longer needed; the data remains stored and is recoverable until the operating system reuses the space containing the deleted file. Erase, on the other hand, removes data permanently. See also erase head. Compare delete.