ablation

Etymology
From Late, from , from ; equivalent to. . Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A carrying or taking away; removal.
 * 2)   The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.
 * 3)  The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as melting or vaporization under heat or chipping.
 * 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.
 * 5)   The depletion of surface snow and ice from a spacecraft or meteorite through melting and evaporation caused by friction with the atmosphere.
 * 1)   The depletion of surface snow and ice from a spacecraft or meteorite through melting and evaporation caused by friction with the atmosphere.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ablació
 * French:
 * Hindi: उच्छेदन
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fjerning
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: абла́ција
 * Roman: ablácija
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ablació
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: абла́ција
 * Roman: ablácija
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan: ablació
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ; 銷蝕
 * Dutch:, , afsmelting
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: абла́ција, одроњавање, отапање
 * Roman: ablácija, odronjavanje, otapanje


 * Vietnamese:, ,

Noun

 * 1) the often forceful removal (physical or otherwise) or abolition of something