Definitions for ablation

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ablation ab·la·tion

Spelling: [a-bley-shuh n]

IPA: /æˈbleɪ ʃən/

Ablation is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 287 anagrams from letters in ablation (aabilnot).

Definitions for ablation

noun

1. the removal, especially of organs, abnormal growths, or harmful substances, from the body by mechanical means, as by surgery.
2. the reduction in volume of glacial ice, snow, or névé by the combined processes of melting, evaporation, and calving. Compare alimentation (def 3).
3. Aerospace. erosion of the protective outer surface (ablator) of a spacecraft or missile due to the aerodynamic heating caused by travel at hypersonic speed during reentry through the atmosphere.

Origin of ablation

First recorded in 1570-80, ablation is from the Late Latin word ablātiōn- (stem of ablātiō). See ablate, -ion

Examples for ablation

ablation may in such a case account for almost the whole of the snow removed.

Further still, in those things which consist in ablation, the straight is as the flat nose; for it subsists with the continued.

The first step towards this assurance is the ablation of the chronic Shaksperian comparison.

Besides being a beacon for sledging parties, it was used for ablation measurements.

In practice this penalty of death appears to have been sometimes commuted to ablation of the sexual organs.

The fracture of the bones or the ablation of a limb is often observed on animals which have been struck.

Excessive connective-tissue growth, exceptionally met with, is to be treated by ablation with the scissors or knife.

Each year there must be a very slow sinking of the surface, but the ablation is infinitesimal.

When this is impracticable, ablation of the tonsil may be necessary.