ablative
- n the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
- a relating to the ablative case
- s tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature
ablative material on a rocket cone
- Without its ablative coating to protect it, it oxidizes explosively, producing overpressures that on a large scale could damage a tank or bunker.
- After you'd spent hours wading through conjugations and declensions and ablative absolutes and gerunds and pasts perfect, imperfect and pluperfect, there was the pointless torture .
- Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) was first developed in France in 1987 and evolved out of the so-called ablative, or lesioning, surgeries in which doctors use heat probes to burn and .