ABLATION

Ablation

Ablation is removal of material from the surface of an object by vaporization, chipping, or other erosive processes. Examples of ablative materials are described below and include spacecraft material for ascent and atmospheric reentry, ice and snow in glaciology, biological tissues in medicine, and passive fire protection materials.

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ablation

Noun

  1. A carrying or taking away; removal.
  2. The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation. <ref name=SOED/>
  3. The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as vaporization under heat or chipping. <ref name=SOED/>
  4. The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion, mass wasting. <ref name=SOED/>


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