ablative

ablatiivinen

sulava, pois kuluva

ablatiivi puhekieltä 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. (defdate)(R:SOED5)
puhekieltä Pertaining to taking away or removing. (defdate)
(quote-book)|year=1622|title=The Works of Joseph Hall: Sermons|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=6KA9AAAAYAAJ|page=123|passage=Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth.
puhekieltä Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying, as in ablative paints used for antifouling. (defdate)(R:CDOE).
puhekieltä Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ. (defdate)
puhekieltä Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier. (defdate)
puhekieltä The ablative case. (defdate)
An ablative material. (defdate)
(inflection of)