annihilations

Noun

annihilation (countable and uncountable, plural annihilations)

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

   Synonyms:

   extinction, eradication

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.
   • 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.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

   Synonyms:

   extinction

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