"ablation" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əˈbleɪ.ʃn̩/, /æbˈleɪ.ʃn̩/ Audio: En-us-ablation.ogg [US], en-ca-ablation.ogg [Canada] Forms: ablations [plural]
enPR: ə-blā'-shən Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Late Middle English ablacioun (“removal”), from Late Latin ablātiō (“a taking away”), from auferō (“to take away, carry off, withdraw, remove”) + -tiō (“-tion”, nominal suffix); equivalent to ablate + -ion. Doublet of ablatio. Compare French ablation. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ablacioun||removal}} Middle English ablacioun (“removal”), {{der|en|LL.|ablātiō|t=a taking away}} Late Latin ablātiō (“a taking away”), {{af|la|auferō|-tiō|nocat=1|pos2=nominal suffix|t1=to take away, carry off, withdraw, remove|t2=-tion}} auferō (“to take away, carry off, withdraw, remove”) + -tiō (“-tion”, nominal suffix), {{af|en|ablate|-ion}} ablate + -ion, {{doublet|en|ablatio}} Doublet of ablatio, {{cog|fr|ablation}} French ablation Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} ablation (countable and uncountable, plural ablations)
  1. (obsolete) A carrying or taking away; removal. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable Translations (taking away, removal): отстраняване (otstranjavane) (Bulgarian), ablació [feminine] (Catalan), उच्छेदन (ucchedan) [masculine] (Hindi), ампутация (amputatsiya) (Kyrgyz), fjerning [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ablação [feminine] (Portuguese), абла́ција [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ablácija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ablación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-ablation-en-noun-j16WTN04 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ion Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 5 29 13 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ion: 49 10 24 18 Disambiguation of 'taking away, removal': 71 7 14 9
  2. (surgery) The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Surgery
    Sense id: en-ablation-en-noun-en:surgery Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
  3. (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.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Geology, Sciences
    Sense id: en-ablation-en-noun-en:geology Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences, sciences
  4. (sciences) The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as melting or vaporization under heat or chipping.
    (meteorology) The depletion of surface snow and ice from a spacecraft or meteorite through melting and evaporation caused by friction with the atmosphere.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Meteorology, Sciences
    Sense id: en-ablation-en-noun-en:meteorology Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ablatable, ablate, ablator Translations (progressive removal of material): ablació [feminine] (Catalan), 消融 (xiāorúng) (Chinese Mandarin), 銷蝕 (Chinese Mandarin), 销蚀 (xiāoshí) (Chinese Mandarin), ablatie [masculine] (Dutch), erosie [masculine] (Dutch), afsmelting [masculine] (Dutch), ablaatio (Finnish), abláció (Hungarian), ablazione [feminine] (Italian), ablasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ablacja [feminine] (Polish), ablação [feminine] (Portuguese), ablațiune [feminine] (Romanian), абля́ция (abljácija) [feminine] (Russian), абла́ција [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), одроњавање [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), отапање [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), ablácija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), odronjavanje [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), otapanje [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian) Translations (surgical removal): ампутация (amputacija) (Bulgarian), ablació [feminine] (Catalan), ablatie [masculine] (Dutch), amputaatio (Finnish), abláció (Hungarian), ablazione [feminine] (Italian), ablasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), amputasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ablacja [feminine] (Polish), ablação [feminine] (Portuguese), ablațiune [feminine] (Romanian), ампута́ция (amputácija) [feminine] (Russian), абла́ција [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ablácija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ablación [feminine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "progressive removal of material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ablação"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "progressive removal of material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ablațiune"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "abljácija",
      "sense": "progressive removal of material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "абля́ция"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "progressive removal of material",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "абла́ција"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "progressive removal of material",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "одроњавање"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "progressive removal of material",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "отапање"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "progressive removal of material",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ablácija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "progressive removal of material",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "odronjavanje"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "progressive removal of material",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "otapanje"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "ablation"
  ],
  "word": "ablation"
}

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