ĕk′stər-pā ′ shən
A progressive decrease in the strength of a conditioned response, often resulting in its elimination, because of withdrawal of a specific stimulus.
extirpate (related)
(Physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
The state of being plucked up by the roots.
The total destruction of something
The process by which snow and ice are removed from a glacier or other mass of ice. Ablation typically occurs through melting, sublimation, wind erosion, or calving. &diamf3; The ablation zone is the area of a glacier that has the lowest elevation, where annual water loss is greater than the annual accumulation of snow.
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The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
destruction (related)
Destruction is defined as the tearing down or dismantling or killing of something.
The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
make (related)
The way in which something is made; style; build
(Topology) The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is unchanged by the identification of a subspace of the latter to a point.
The act of deracinating; uprooting
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surgical removal of a body part or tissue
enslavement (related)
help (related)
Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
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