Tanım
•ablation: · the removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion or mass wasting · the depletion of surface snow and ice from a spacecraft or meteorite through melting and evaporation caused by friction with the atmosphere
Etimoloji
From Dutch ablatie, from French ablation, from Late Latin ablātiō (“a taking away”).