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(grammar) The ablative case.
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An ablative material.
adjective
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(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.
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Pertaining to taking away or removing.
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Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying, as in ablative paints used for antifouling. .
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Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
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Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
Examples of ablative in a Sentence
These include oesophageal stents - either rigid plastic or self-expanding metallic stents (SEMS) and local tumor ablative techniques such as laser therapy.
There are three declensions, each with a definite and indefinite form; the genitive, dative and ablative are usually represented by a single termination; the vocative is formed by a final o, as memmo from memme, " mother."
These belong to a group of four auxiliary particles called te ni wo ha (or we), which serve to mark the cases of nouns, te (or de) being the sign of the instrumental ablative; ni that of the dative; wo that of the objective, and wa that of the nominative.
In the gthgs there is a special ablative, limited, as Pa Sanskrit, to the a stems, whilst in later Zend the ablative is PA tended to all the stems indifferently.
Ablative procedures are characterized by severing a nerve and disconnecting it from the spinal cord.
There is an excessive use of the ablative absolute, and ablative phrases are often appended in a kind of vague "apposition" to express the author's own opinion of an immediately previous statement, e.g.