annihilation

See also: Annihilation

English

Etymology

From Middle French annihilation, from Latin annihilātiō. By surface analysis, annihilate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˌnaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Noun

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annihilation

Wikipedia

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, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     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

• (antonym(s) of “act of reducing to nothing”): creation, generation
• (antonym(s) of “state of being annihilated”): generation

Derived terms

• annihilationism
• annihilationist
• coannihilation
• family annihilation
• reannihilation
• self-annihilation

Related terms

• annihilable
• annihilate
• annihilative
• annihilator
• annihilatory

Translations

act of reducing to nothing

Arabic: إِفْنَاء m (ʔifnāʔ), تَدْمِير m (tadmīr) Armenian: ոչնչացում (hy) (očʻnčʻacʻum) Belarusian: знішчэ́нне n (zniščénnje) Bengali: ফানা (bn) (fana) Bulgarian: унищоже́ние (bg) n (uništožénie), изтре́бване (bg) n (iztrébvane) Catalan: anihilació f Chinese: Mandarin: 毁灭 (zh) (huǐmiè), 毀滅 / 毁灭 (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 Hindi: उन्मूलन (hi) m (unmūlan), सर्वनाश (hi) m (sarvanāś) 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 (fewtandin), لەناوبردن (lenawbirdin) Latin: annihilatio f Macedonian: уништување n (uništuvanje) Maori: korehāhā Ottoman Turkish: افنا (ifna) 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, aniquilamiento (es) m, anihilación (es) f, anihilamiento (es) m Swedish: utplåning (sv) 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, aniquilamiento (es) m, anihilación (es) f, anihilamiento (es) m

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

Arabic: إِفْنَاء m (ʔifnāʔ) Bulgarian: анихилация (anihilacija) Catalan: anihilació f Chinese: Mandarin: 湮灭 (zh) (yānmiè), 湮滅 / 湮灭 (zh) (yānmiè) Czech: anihilace f Finnish: annihilaatio (fi) German: Annihilation (de) f Hindi: विलोपन (hi) (vilopan) 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “annihilation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “annihilation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin annihilātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.i.la.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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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.