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[əˈbleɪʃn], (Noun)
Definitions:
- the surgical removal of body tissue
- the removal of snow and ice from a glacier or iceberg by melting or evaporation
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Origin
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late Middle English (in the general sense ‘taking away, removal’): from late Latin ablatio(n-), from Latin ablat- ‘taken away’, from ab- ‘away’ + lat- ‘carried’ (from the verb ferre)
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