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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • coquō (ablative) "[by/with/from/in the] cook" [in various uses not covered by the above] (e.g. sum altior coquō – I am taller than the cook: ablative of comparison)...
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    a vowel before final m. In the ablative singular, -d was regularly lost after a long vowel. In the dative and ablative plural, the -abos descending from...
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  • (accusative), -lo (locative), -in (instrumental), -vo (vocative), -ab (ablative) The first sentence above could be formed with any of the following word...
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  • derives the numero sign from Latin numero, the ablative form of numerus ("number", with the ablative denotations of "by the number, with the number")...
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  • the sofa" Liisa sai kirjan minulta = "Liisa got the book from me" The ablative can also indicate time and it can be used to convey information about qualities...
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  • the heat. Two basic types of aerodynamic heat shield have been used: An ablative heat shield consists of a layer of plastic resin, the outer surface of...
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  • either a 5.1 in (13 cm) or a 12 in (30 cm) disc in a cartridge, with an ablative optical layer that could be written to only once, and were often used in...
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  • Indic languages (such as Bangla and Marathi—in which, however, a separate ablative case has disappeared) Old Latin still had a functioning locative singular...
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    Latin. An alternative formation with a feminine ablative form modifying mente (originally the ablative of mēns, and so meaning "with a ... mind") gave...
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    erbium lasers, and combinations of these are examples of the types of ablative lasers that are used in the resurfacing process.   The top outer layer...
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  • receiving the sacrament of Penance. Grammatically, meā culpā is in the ablative case, with an instrumental meaning. At the sight of the crucifixion of...
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    indicate a duration of time: The man killed the boy. (Vir puerum necāvit.) Ablative – used when the noun demonstrates separation or movement from a source...
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  • present or past participle in the ablative case; for this reason they are referred to as ablative absolutes. An ablative absolute describes some general...
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    singular; annī is genitive singular and nominative plural; annō the dative and ablative singular) is from a PIE noun *h₂et-no-, which also yielded Gothic aþn "year"...
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  • include the suffixes of the accusative, dative-locative and alternate ablative cases (be, de, deri), the suffix for the imperfect converb (-me) and the...
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    vocative, ablative, locative, and instrumental. The ablative occurs only in the singular, in free variation with oblique case plus ablative postposition...
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  • accusative case, dative case, instrumental case, sociative case, locative case, ablative case, genitive case, and vocative case. If the plural is used, the noun...
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    Treatments can be classified as either physically ablative, or topical agents. Physically ablative therapies are considered more effective at initial...
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    notarized commercial contracts have dozens of instances of Latin avariis (ablative plural of avaria), as published in Blancard year 1884. Some information...
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  • the feminine forms of primus ("first") and facies ("face"), both in the ablative case. In modern, colloquial, and conversational English, a common translation...
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