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ablations

/əˈbleɪ.ʃn̩s/

ablations is the plural of ablation.

Meaning of ablation

Noun

ablation (countable and uncountable, plural ablations)

  1. (obsolete) 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.
    1. (artificial intelligence) The removal of a component of an AI system.
  3. The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion or mass wasting.
    • “We’re just seeing enormous ablation, ice melt rates and snow melt rates all over the Alps,” Glamos network chief Matthias Huss told AFP on Friday, as multiple Swiss weather stations registered new all-time records.2026 June 27, “Snow and ice on Swiss glaciers melting at alarming rate amid heatwave, expert says”, in The Guardian, sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2026
  4. The depletion of surface snow and ice from a spacecraft or meteorite through melting and evaporation caused by aerodynamic heating.

Questions about ablations

What is ablations the plural of?
Ablations is the plural of ablation.
How do you pronounce ablations?
Ablations is pronounced /əˈbleɪ.ʃn̩s/.

Words near ablations in the dictionary

  1. ablation
  2. ablation studies
  3. ablation study
  4. ablational
  5. ablationally
  6. ablations
  7. ablatitious
  8. ablatival
  9. ablative
  10. ablative absolute
  11. ablative absolutes

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