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発音

• IPA: /əˌnaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən
• ハイフネーション: an‧ni‧hi‧la‧tion

名詞

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.

同意語

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

反意語

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

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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.