Usually means: Removal of material by erosion.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. ablation: Merriam-Webster
  2. ablation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ablation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ablation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ablation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ablation, ablation: Wordnik
  7. ablation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ablation: Wiktionary
  9. ablation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ablation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ablation: Dictionary.com
  12. Ablation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ablation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ablation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ablation: Rhymezone
  16. Ablation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ablation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. ablation: FreeDictionary.org
  19. ablation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ablation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. ablation: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ablation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. ablation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ablation: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Ablation: MedFriendly Glossary
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  7. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  9. ablation: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. ablation: Laser Eye Surgery
  11. ablation: Medical dictionary
  12. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  13. Ablation: Drug Medical Dictionary
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  2. Ablation: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. ABLATION: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Ablation: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ablation)

noun:  (obsolete) A carrying or taking away; removal.
noun:  (surgery) The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.
noun:  (sciences) The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as melting or vaporization under heat or chipping.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (meteorology) The depletion of surface snow and ice from a spacecraft or meteorite through melting and evaporation caused by aerodynamic heating.

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