palimpsest

palimpsest definitions

• To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse. 

• On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day. 

• The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one. 

• A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written. 

• Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form. 

• Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface. 

• Memory that has been erased and re-written. 

• Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.