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消滅, しょうめつ

  • shōmetsu

Definition

noun (common) (futsuumeishi), noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru

  • lapse
  • annihilation (physics)

Definition

  • extinguishment
  • termination (e.g. of legal representation)

Definition

mathematics

  • vanishing

Examples of 消滅,しょうめつ in a Sentence

虎は消滅しかかっている種族である。
The tiger is a vanishing species.
もし酸素がなかったら、すべての動物はとうに消滅していただろう。
Without oxygen, all animals would have disappeared long ago.
赤道近くの狭い地域にある熱帯雨林は、急速にその姿を消しつつあり、２０００年までにはその８０％が消滅してしまうかもしれない。
The tropical rainforests, located in a narrow region near the equator, are disappearing so fast that by the year 2000 eighty percent of them may be gone.
古い伝統が消滅しつつある。
Old traditions are crumbling away.
もし太陽が消滅したら、生物は皆死ぬだろう。
If the sun were to go out, all living things would die.
万一太陽が消滅したら、あらゆる生き物が死ぬだろう。
If the sun were to go out, all living things would die.
その国は消滅した。
The nation ceased to exist.
破壊の結果、毎日５０種類もの野生の動植物が消滅していると見積もられている。
It has been estimated that, as a result of the destruction, fifty species of wildlife are disappearing from the earth each day.

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