Usually means: Clearing of forests on large-scale.
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  1. deforestation: Merriam-Webster
  2. deforestation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deforestation: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. Deforestation, deforestation: Wordnik
  6. deforestation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. deforestation: Wiktionary
  8. deforestation: Dictionary.com
  9. Deforestation (computer science), Deforestation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. deforestation: Rhymezone
  11. deforestation: FreeDictionary.org
  12. deforestation: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  14. deforestation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Deforestation: Energy Dictionary
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  1. deforestation: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Deforestation, deforestation: Encyclopedia

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  1. Deforestation: Africa Glossary

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. deforestation: Evolution Glossary
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  4. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)

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  1. deforestation: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See deforest as well.)

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noun:  The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system.
noun:  (computing theory) A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.

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