ablative

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Applied to one of the cases of the noun some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away
Taking away or removing

Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth.

Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying, as in ablative paints used for antifouling
The ablative case
A material that absorbs heat through a decomposition process called pyrolysis at or near the exposed surface
Able to be eroded or flaked away An ablative heat shield is one in which the shield material itself vaporizes and takes the heat away with it as it goes The Apollo command module used an ablative heat shield made of a resinous material held in an aluminum honeycomb
{a} taking away, as the ablative case in Latin, the sixth case of nouns
tending to ablate; i e to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature; "ablative material on a rocket cone"
the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
An invasive surgical method that removes unwanted structures by laser destruction or vaporization, as in laser resurfacing of the skin
Material that absorbs heat through a decomposition process called pyrolysis at or near the exposed surface
This is the term used to describe a physical characteristic of WORM (Write Once Read Many) optical media After writing to an ablative WORM cartridge an irrevocable change to the recording layer is made That is a hole is burnt or pit is created in the recording layer WORM drives were the first type of Optical storage devices to enter the market circa 1980 Ablative WORM cartridges are proprietary in their format, which means that they will only run on certain drives
Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, such as German, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away
Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away
{s} (Grammar) of or pertaining to the ablative case (used to indicate direction, location, or agency)
the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb tending to ablate; i
to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature; "ablative material on a rocket cone"
to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature; "ablative material on a rocket cone" relating to the ablative case
{i} (Grammar) grammatical case that indicates direction or location or agency (such as "at home
relating to the ablative case
abl
ablative absolute
A construction in Latin in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence
ablative case
: case used in some languages to indicate movement away from something, removal, separation, source. It corresponds roughly to the English prepositions "from", "away from", and "concerning"
ablative cases
plural form of ablative case
ablative absolute
a constituent in Latin grammar; a noun and its modifier can function as a sentence modifier
ablative case
grammatical case that indicates direction or location or agency (Grammar)
loose ablative
A syntactic construction which uses the past participle, inflected in the ablative case, without an auxiliary verb yet not as an adjective, but silently supposing a verb to depend upon
ablatives
plural of ablative
Turkish - English
{k} abl
ablative

    Hyphenation

    ab·la·tive

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    () French ablatif, ablative, Latin ablativus from ablatus. See ablation.
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