ERASER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eraser mean? 

• ERASER (noun)
  The noun ERASER has 1 sense:

1. an implement used to erase something

  Familiarity information: ERASER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERASER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An implement used to erase something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("eraser" is a kind of...):

implement (instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eraser"):

blackboard eraser (an eraser that removes chalk marks from blackboard)

ink eraser (an eraser that removes ink marks)

pencil eraser; rubber; rubber eraser (an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil)

Derivation:

erase (wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information)

erase (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)

 Context examples 

They are usually round or oval and no larger than a pencil eraser.

(Moles, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

They are so small that a line of 1,000 could fit across a pencil eraser.

(Bacterial Infections, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Adam was lucky — a mammogram caught her cancer early… when the tumor was just three by four millimeters, smaller than the size of a pencil eraser.

(Study Shows Chemotherapy Not Needed To Treat Many Breast Cancers, Carol Pearson/VOA)