ablation has definitions from the fields of medicine,surgery,geology
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[ noun ] (medicine,surgery) surgical removal of a body part or tissue

Used in print

(Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)

The anode ablation could be reduced to a negligible amount .

The high heat fluxes existing at the electrode surfaces of electric arcs necessitate extensive cooling to prevent electrode ablation .

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[ noun ] (geology) the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers

Related terms

erosion ablate

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