annihilate

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

annihilates

V_ing/Gerund

annihilating

V_ed/pp

annihilated

1.
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
2.
(particle)(particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
3.
(archaic)To treat as worthless, to vilify.
4.
(transitive)To render null and void; to abrogate.
5.
(mathematics) To cause to become zero by means of an annihilator operator.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

benothingdestroy eradicateextinguish

Trái nghĩa

create generateto reduce to nothing create, generate

Cùng gốc / liên quan

coannihilateself-annihilateannihilator method

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Nguồn gốc từ

Latin annihilātus, perfect passive participle of annihilō (to reduce to nothing) (see -ate), from ad (to) + nihil (nothing) + -ō. See also an-#Etymology_4.