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Noun
/əˈblāSHən/,
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The surgical removal of body tissue,
  1. The surgical removal of body tissue

  2. The removal of snow and ice by melting or evaporation, typically from a glacier or iceberg

  3. The erosion of rock, typically by wind action

  4. The loss of surface material from a spacecraft or meteorite through evaporation or melting caused by friction with the atmosphere


  1. surgical removal of a body part or tissue
  2. the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers
  3. (ablate) wear away through erosion or vaporization
  4. (ablate) remove an organ or bodily structure
  5. (ablative) relating to the ablative case
  6. (ablative) the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
  7. Ablation means removal of material from the surface of an object by vaporization, chipping, or other erosive processes. The term occurs in spaceflight associated with atmospheric reentry, in glaciology, medicine, and passive fire protection.
  8. In linguistics, ablative case (abbreviated) is a name given to cases in various languages whose common characteristic is that they mark motion away from something, though the details in each language may differ. ...
  9. (ablate) To remove or decrease something by the process of ablation; To undergo ablation
  10. The ablative case; Taking away or removing; Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away; Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying, as in ablative paints used ...
  11. (Ablate) in surgery; is to remove.
  12. (ablate) to remove by cutting, abrading, or evaporating, melting; the surfaces of incoming meteorites are ablated as they fall through the atmosphere
  13. (Ablate) To destroy the function of an organ or tissue. Radioactive iodine treatment ablates thyroid tissues.
  14. (Ablate) To eliminate cancer cells
  15. (Ablate) To remove or otherwise destroy the biological function of any part (e.g. bone marrow).
  16. (Ablate) To remove, or vaporize, tissue using laser energy.
  17. (Ablate) To remove. Used in reference to the formation of laser-readable "pits" in the recording layer of optical disks.
  18. (ablating) When referring to glaciers: melting, receding.
  19. (Ablative) Materials that provide fire resistance by gradually eroding to the flame front at a known or predictable rate.
  20. (Ablative) When in reference to cosmetic lasers, ablative lasers remove the outermost layer of skin during treatment.
  21. (Ablative) marking the point of origin (John came home from work)
  22. (Ablative) semanticcasethatmarksalocationfromwhichmotionoriginates
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  24. (ablative) Able to be eroded or flaked away. An ablative heat shield is one in which the shield material itself vaporizes and takes the heat away with it as it goes. The Apollo command module used an ablative heat shield made of a resinous material held in an aluminum honeycomb.
  25. (ablative) a taking or wearing away; grammatically, it implies motion away from something. [p. 470]