Ablative

Quick meaning: Ablative is an adjective meaning (medicine) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.

Meaning

(medicine) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.

More Meanings

1. (geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
2. (grammar) The ablative case.
3. An ablative material.
4. (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.
5. (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. .
6. (archaic) Pertaining to taking away or removing.

Example Sentences

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

The inner layer of warship protection consists of ablative armor plate designed to "boil away" when heated. The vaporized armor material scatters a DEW beam, rendering it ineffectual.

Word Forms

• ablatives

Synonyms for ablative

Depending on context, synonyms include subtractive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subtractive, photodecomposition, cessative, accus, absolvitory, abjuratory.

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