ablative

Etymology
From, , , , from , from , from , from. The engineering/nautical sense originates from +.

Adjective

 * 1)   Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
 * 2)  Pertaining to taking away or removing.
 * 3)  Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry..
 * 4)  Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
 * 5)  Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
 * 1)  Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
 * 2)  Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.

Translations

 * Basque: ablatibo
 * Bulgarian: творителен
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Esperanto: ablativa
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀφαιρετικός
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: ablātīvus
 * Manx: gowaltagh
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, ablativisk
 * Old English: ætbreġdendlīċ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romagnol: ablatìv
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: abladol


 * Interlingua:
 * Vietnamese:

Noun

 * 1)  The ablative case.
 * 2) An ablative material.