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    In grammar, the ablative case (pronounced /ˈæblətɪv/ AB-lə-tiv; sometimes abbreviated abl) is a grammatical case for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in...
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  • In Latin grammar, the ablative case (cāsus ablātīvus) is one of the six cases of nouns. Traditionally, it is the sixth case (cāsus sextus, cāsus latīnus)...
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  • Ablative armor is armor which prevents damage through the process of ablation, the removal of material from the surface of an object by vaporization, chipping...
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    Ablation (redirect from Ablative cooling)
    vaporization, chipping, erosive processes, or by other means. Examples of ablative materials are described below, including spacecraft material for ascent...
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    atmospheres of Venus, Titan and the giant planets. The concept of the ablative heat shield was described as early as 1920 by Robert Goddard: "In the case...
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  • accusative, vocative and ablative." This order was based on the order used by earlier Greek grammarians, with the addition of the ablative, which does not exist...
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    (subject), accusative (object), genitive ("of"), dative ("to" or "for"), and ablative ("with" or "in"). Nouns for people (potential addressees) have the vocative...
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  • 'with the ships' has the ablative ending. Although the ending -ibus is the same for both dative and ablative plural, the ablative meaning 'with' is more...
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    orbit or coming towards the Earth as in a returning elliptical orbit. Ablative laser propulsion (ALP) is a form of beam-powered propulsion in which an...
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  • Ablative brain surgery (also known as brain lesioning) is the surgical ablation by various methods of brain tissue to treat neurological or psychological...
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