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“ablations”
1. Surgical excisions, removals, or amputations of body parts or tissues: "The doctor specialized in the ablation of tumors on the lungs."
2. The erosive processes by which a glacier is reduced; wearing or wasting away: "Melting and the breaking off of a mass of ice from its parent glacier, iceberg, or ice shelf are ablations that ice bergs undergo during the summer months."
3. In aerospace, the dissipation of heat generated by atmospheric friction: "There are ablations in atmospheric re-entries of spacecrafts or missiles with the use of melting heat shields."
2. The erosive processes by which a glacier is reduced; wearing or wasting away: "Melting and the breaking off of a mass of ice from its parent glacier, iceberg, or ice shelf are ablations that ice bergs undergo during the summer months."
3. In aerospace, the dissipation of heat generated by atmospheric friction: "There are ablations in atmospheric re-entries of spacecrafts or missiles with the use of melting heat shields."
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a-, ab-, abs-
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-ation, -ization (-iz[e] + -ation); -isation (British spelling variation)
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later-, lateral-, -late, -lat, -lation, -lative
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