What does ablate mean?
Definitions for ablate
æˈbleɪtab·late
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Princeton's WordNet
ablateverb
wear away through erosion or vaporization
ablateverb
remove an organ or bodily structure
Wiktionary
ablateverb
To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
ablateverb
To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature.
Wikipedia
ablate
Ablation (Latin: ablatio – removal) is removal or destruction of something from an object by vaporization, chipping, erosive processes or by other means. 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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ablate
To ablate is to remove or destroy material, such as tissue, in a living organism or object, often through surgical procedures or in some cases erosion. It can also refer to the reduction or removal through natural processes like evaporation or melting. In a broader context, it can mean getting rid of anything.
ablate
To ablate generally means to remove or destroy material, often through a process of vaporization, chipping, or other erosive process. This term is often used in medical fields to describe the removal of harmful substances like tumors, in manufacturing to describe the removal of surface materials, or in aerospace where material often wears away from a spacecraft when entering a planet's atmosphere.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ablate in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ablate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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