Meaning of ablation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A carrying or taking away; removal.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.
   countable, uncountable
3. The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as melting or vaporization under heat or chipping.
   countable, uncountable
4. The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion or mass wasting.
   countable, uncountable
5. The depletion of surface snow and ice from a spacecraft or meteorite through melting and evaporation caused by aerodynamic heating.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

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