Ablate
to remove or dissipate by melting, vaporization, erosion, etc.:
to ablate a metal surface with intense heat.
to become ablated; undergo .
verb
(transitive) to remove by ablation
ablate ab·late (ā-blāt’)
v. ab·lat·ed, ab·lat·ing, ab·lates
to remove or destroy the function of.
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the removal, especially of organs, abnormal growths, or harmful substances, from the body by mechanical means, as by surgery. the reduction in volume of glacial ice, snow, or névé by the combined processes of melting, evaporation, and calving. compare (def 3). aerosp-ce. erosion of the protective outer surface (ablator) of a sp-cecraft or missile due […]
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a construction not dependent upon any other part of the sentence, consisting of a noun and a participle, noun and adjective, or two nouns, in which both members are in the ablative case, as latin viā factā, “the road having been made.”. historical examples as for the ablative absolute, its reconstruction and regeneration have been […]
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