annihilation

annihilation

See also: Annihilation

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˌnaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: an‧ni‧hi‧la‧tion

Noun

annihilation (countable and uncountable, plural annihilations)

1. The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
2. 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.

   the annihilation of a corporation

3. The state of being annihilated.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

     If you ask how religion thus falls on the thorns and faces death, and in the very act annuls annihilation, I cannot explain the matter, for it is religion's secret, and to understand it you must yourself have been a religious man of the extremer type.

4. (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.

Synonyms

• (act of reducing to nothing): extinction, eradication
• (state of being annihilated): extinction

Antonyms

• (act of reducing to nothing): creation, generation
• (state of being annihilated): generation

Derived terms

• self-annihilation

Related terms

Related terms

• annihilate
• annihilator
• annihilable
• annihilative

Translations

act of reducing to nothing

Arabic: إِفْنَاء‎ m (ʾifnāʾ), تَدْمِير‎‎ m (tadmīr) Armenian: ոչնչացում (hy) (očʿnčʿacʿum) Belarusian: знішчэ́нне n (zniščénnje) Bulgarian: унищоже́ние (bg) n (uništožénie), изтре́бване (bg) n (iztrébvane) Catalan: anihilació f Chinese: Mandarin: 毁灭 (zh) (huǐmiè), 毀滅 (zh) (huǐmiè) Czech: zničení n Dutch: vernietiging (nl) f Finnish: tuhoaminen (fi), hävittäminen (fi) French: annihilation (fr) German: Vernichtung (de) f, Zerstörung (de) f Hebrew: הַשְׁמָדָה‎ f (hashmadá), חיסול‎ m Ido: nihiligo (io) Italian: annientamento (it) m, annichilazione (it) f, annichilimento (it) m Japanese: 根絶 (ja) (こんぜつ, konzetsu), 殲滅 (ja) (せんめつ, senmetsu) Korean: 전멸(全滅) (ko) (jeonmyeol) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: فەوتاندن‎ (ku) (fewtandin), لەناوبردن‎ (lenawbirdin) Macedonian: уништување n (uništuvanje) Maori: korehāhā Persian: نابودی‎ (fa) (nâbudi) Polish: zniszczenie (pl) n, niszczenie (pl) n Portuguese: aniquilação (pt) f Romanian: anihilare (ro) f Russian: уничтоже́ние (ru) n (uničtožénije), истребле́ние (ru) n (istreblénije), разруше́ние (ru) n (razrušénije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: униште́ње n Roman: uništénje (sh) n Slovak: zničenie n Slovene: uničenje (sl) n Spanish: aniquilación (es) f Swedish: utplåning c, förintelse (sv) c, utplånande (sv) n Ukrainian: зни́щення n (znýščennja) Yiddish: פֿאַרטיליקונג‎ f (fartilikung)

state of being annihilated

Finnish: tuhoutuminen (fi) Italian: annientamento (it) m, annichilazione (it) f, annichilimento (it) m Japanese: 全滅 (ja) (せんめつ, senmetsu), 絶滅 (ja) (ぜつめつ, zetsumetsu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: لەناوبردن‎ (lenawbirdin) Maori: korehāhā, whakamōtītanga Polish: anihilacja (pl) f Portuguese: aniquilação (pt) f Romanian: anihilare (ro) f Russian: уничтоже́ние (ru) n (uničtožénije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: униште́ње n Roman: uništénje (sh) n Spanish: aniquilación (es) f

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

Arabic: إِفْنَاء‎ m (ʾifnāʾ) Bulgarian: анихилация (anihilacija) Catalan: anihilació f Chinese: Mandarin: 湮灭 (zh) (yānmiè), 湮滅 (zh) (yānmiè) Czech: anihilace f Finnish: annihilaatio German: Annihilation (de) f Ido: nihiligo (io) Italian: annientamento (it) m, annichilazione (it) f, annichilimento (it) m Malay: pemusnahhabisan Polish: anihilacja (pl) f Portuguese: aniquilação (pt) f Romanian: anihilare (ro) f Russian: аннигиля́ция (ru) f (annigiljácija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: анихила́ција f Roman: anihilácija (sh) f Spanish: aniquilación (es) f

Further reading

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

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French

Etymology

annihiler +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.i.la.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

annihilation f (plural annihilations)

1. annihilation

Further reading

• “annihilation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.