Definitions from Wiktionary (ablative)

▸ adjective:  (grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
▸ 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.
▸ Also see ablative



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