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▸ adjective: (archaic) Pertaining to taking away or removing.
▸ adjective: (engineering, nautical, astronautics) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
▸ adjective: (medicine) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
▸ adjective: (geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
▸ noun: (grammar) The ablative case.
▸ noun: An ablative material.
Similar:
ablative case,
subtractive,
cessative,
accus,
absolvitory,
abjuratory,
absolvatory,
absolutory,
Act.,
resultative,
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latin,
instrumental,
simple,
old,
nominative,
locative,
absolute,
technical,
descriptive,
local,
classical
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