ablative

Meanings

Plural: ablatives

Noun

• the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
• The ablative case.
• An ablative material.

Adjective

• relating to the ablative case

Adjective Satellite

• tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature
  • "ablative material on a rocket cone"

Adj

• 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.
• Pertaining to taking away or removing.
• Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
• Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
• Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.

Synonyms

ablative case

Anagrams of ablative