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wipe

(1) To completely erase data from memory or the hard disk. See file wipe.

(2) A digital video effect that places one image over another. Although there are a myriad varieties, the classic wipe is a scene transition where the next scene slides horizontally or vertically over the current one. Another common wipe is the circle wipe. A small circle that contains another scene starts to grow in the middle of the current frame and gradually fills the entire frame.

wipe
(in film editing) an effect causing the transition from one scene to the next in which the image of the first scene appears to be wiped off the screen by that of the second


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At the rate that genetic mutation occurs in chloroplasts, it probably wouldn't have produced seven new haplotypes in just 12,000 years, the scenario required if the species had been wiped out in the region during the last ice age.
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