ablation
IPA: ʌbɫˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (obsolete) A carrying or taking away; removal.
- (surgery) The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.
- (sciences) The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as melting or vaporization under heat or chipping.
- (geology) 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.
- (meteorology) The depletion of surface snow and ice from a spacecraft or meteorite through melting and evaporation caused by friction with the atmosphere.
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Examples of "ablation" in Sentences
- One is to induce a standing shockwave in the ablation cloud.
- Chapman and Larson experimented on the ablation of australites.
- Is catheter ablation effective for the treatment of arrhythmias
- Annual ablation at the terminus of the glacier is typically a 1.
- The most common surgical intervention is ablation of the cochlea.
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