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Thursday, January 25, 2007
ablation
ablation (n)
1. A carrying or taking away; removal.
2. (medicine) The surgical removal of a body part; amputation.
3. (geology) The erosion of a glacier.
4. (physics) The dissipation of the heat of re-entry of a spacecraft.
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