Synonym of modern period or modern history (the period following postclassical history, in Europe known as the "Middle Ages", spanning from about 1500 to the present).

(historical) A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s.

(Internet slang) A period marked by failure, lack of success, or inability to function or thrive.

(baseball) The period between around 1900 and 1919, characterized by low scoring games with few home runs.

(baseball) The period after about 1919, following the dead-ball era.

(historical) The time period between 1611 and 1721 when the Swedish Empire thrived in Europe.

One who erases. / (Canada, US) A thing used to erase or remove something written or drawn by a pen or a pencil.

(computing) The operation of deleting data.

(transitive) to remove markings or information / (transitive) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.

present participle of erase