annihilation

aniquilación

Destrucción completa de alguien o algo.

En inglés sencillo: The complete destruction of someone or something.

• They feared the annihilation of their city.
• The weapons threatened total annihilation.
• Only a treaty could prevent nuclear annihilation.

Cómo se usa: annihilation of someone/something (The attack caused the annihilation of the army.)

Sinónimos: destruction, obliteration

Expresiones frecuentes: total annihilation, nuclear annihilation, annihilation of something

aniquilación

Estado en el que algo ha quedado completamente destruido o ha dejado de existir.

En inglés sencillo: A condition in which something has been completely destroyed or no longer exists.

• Nothing remained after the village's annihilation.
• The story ends with the world's complete annihilation.
• The army faced total annihilation.

Sinónimos: nonexistence, extinction

Expresiones frecuentes: complete annihilation, state of annihilation, total annihilation

aniquilación

Proceso en que una partícula y su antipartícula desaparecen y liberan energía.

En inglés sencillo: A process in which a particle and its opposite particle disappear, releasing energy.

• Annihilation releases energy as radiation.
• The experiment measured electron and positron annihilation.
• Two photons emerged from the annihilation.

Expresiones frecuentes: particle annihilation, electron annihilation, annihilation radiation

disolución, aniquilación

Destrucción de algo como conjunto organizado, aunque sus partes sigan existiendo.

En inglés sencillo: The destruction of something as an organized whole, even if its separate parts remain.

• The decree ordered the annihilation of the corporation.
• Its assets survived the annihilation of the company.
• The merger meant the annihilation of the old institution.

Sinónimos: dissolution, abolition

Expresiones frecuentes: annihilation of something, corporate annihilation