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an•ni•hi•la•tor
(ə nī′ə lā′tər),USA pronunciation n.
- a person or thing that annihilates.
- Mathematicsthe set of all linear functionals that map to zero all elements of a given subset of a vector space.
- annihilate + -or2 1690–1700