annihilation

See also Annihilation

English

Etymology

From Middle French annihilation, from Latin ad (“to”) + nihil (“nothing”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ʌˈnaɪ.ə.le.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

annihilation (plural annihilations)

1. The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or 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; as, the annihilation of a corporation.
2. The state of being annihilated.
3. (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.

Related terms

annihilate annihilator

Translations

act of reducing to nothing

• Bulgarian: унищожение (bg) (uništoženie), изтребване (bg) (iztrebvane)
• Finnish: tuhoaminen, hävittäminen
• Ido: nihiligo (io)
• Italian: annientamento (it) m, annichilazione (it) f, annichilimento (it) m

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: فه‌وتاندن, له‌ناوبردن

• Serbo-Croatian: anihilacija (sh) f
• Spanish: aniquilación (es) f

state of being annihilated

• Finnish: tuhoutuminen (fi)
• Italian: annientamento (it) m, annichilazione (it) f, annichilimento (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: له‌ناوبردن

• Serbo-Croatian: anihilacija (sh) f

process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy

• Bulgarian: анихилация (bg) (anihilacija)
• Czech: anihilace (cs) f
• Finnish: annihilaatio (fi)
• German: Annihilation (de) f

• Ido: nihiligo (io)
• Italian: annientamento (it) m, annichilazione (it) f, annichilimento (it) m
• Serbo-Croatian: anihilacija (sh) f

External links

• annihilation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• annihilation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• annihilation at OneLook Dictionary Search