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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 65 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABLATION (from See also:Lat. ablatus, carried away) , the See also:process of removing anything; a See also:term used technically in See also:geology of the wearing away of a See also:rock or See also:glacier, and in See also:surgery for operative removal.

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