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Definitions
tending to ablate; i.e.
to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature
Word origin
From Middle English ablative, ablatife, ablatyf, ablatif, from Old French ablatif (“the ablative case”), from Latin ablātīvus (“expressing removal”), from ablātus (“taken away”), from auferō (“to take away”). The engineering/nautical sense originates from ablate + -ive.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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