ablation loss
1Ablation zone — On a glacier, the ablation zone, zone of ablation or zone of wastage is the area in which annual loss of snow through melting, evaporation, iceberg calving and sublimation exceeds annual gain of snow and ice on the surface. Of these, melting is… …
2loss — n 1. detriment, disadvantage, prejudice; impairment, injury, damage, hurt, harm, disablement, incapacitation; step backward, regression, retrogression, lapse. 2. privation, deprivation, bereavement; sacrifice, denial, forfeiture; nonrestoration.… …
3loss — Synonyms and related words: ablation, annihilation, attrition, bankruptcy, bereavement, breakage, breakdown, collapse, confusion, consumption, corrosion, crack up, crippling, damage, death, decrement, defeat, deliquescence, demise, denial,… …
4ablation — noun Date: 15th century the process of ablating: as a. surgical removal b. loss of a part (as ice from a glacier or the outside of a nose cone) by melting or vaporization …
5ablation — the net loss of water from a glacier through melting, calving, evaporation, sublimation or wind transport. Is dominant to accumulation over space and time when the glacier enters warmer conditions …
6ablation — Synonyms and related words: abrasion, abrasive, absorption, abstraction, assimilation, atomization, attrition, breakup, buffing, burning up, burnishing, chafe, chafing, consumption, corrosion, crumbling, decay, decomposition, decrease, decrement …
7ablation — [ə bleɪʃ(ə)n] noun 1》 the loss of solid material (especially ice) by melting or evaporation. ↘the erosion of rock by wind action. 2》 the surgical removal of body tissue. Derivatives ablate verb Origin ME: from late L. ablatio(n ), from L.… …
8Columbia Icefield — ▪ icefield, Canada Introduction largest ice field in the Rocky Mountains, astride the British Columbia–Alberta border, Canada. Lying partially within Jasper National Park, it is one of the most accessible expanses of glacial ice in North… …
9glacier — glaciered, adj. /glay sheuhr/, n. an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of… …
10Atrial fibrillation — | MeshID = D001281 Atrial fibrillation (AF or afib) is a cardiac arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) that involves the two upper chambers (atria) of the heart. It can often be identified by taking a pulse and observing that the heartbeats don t… …
