In grammar, the ablative case (pronounced /ˈæblətɪv/ AB-lə-tiv; sometimes abbreviated abl) is a grammatical case for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in...

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)...

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...

vaporization, chipping, erosive processes, or by other means. Examples of ablative materials are described below, including spacecraft material for ascent...

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...

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...

'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...

(subject), accusative (object), genitive ("of"), dative ("to" or "for"), and ablative ("with" or "in"). Nouns for people (potential addressees) have the vocative...

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...

Ablative brain surgery (also known as brain lesioning) is the surgical ablation by various methods of brain tissue to treat neurological or psychological...

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...

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)...

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...

(accusative), -lo (locative), -in (instrumental), -vo (vocative), -ab (ablative) The first sentence above could be formed with any of the following word...

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...

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...

Indic languages (such as Bangla and Marathi—in which, however, a separate ablative case has disappeared) Old Latin still had a functioning locative singular...

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...

removal of excess fat. Resurfacing can be ablative, which vaporizes tissue and creates wounds, or non-ablative which keeps the skin intact. Laser resurfacing...

Latin. An alternative formation with a feminine ablative form modifying mente (originally the ablative of mēns, and so meaning "with a ... mind") gave...

derives the numero sign from Latin numero, the ablative form of numerus ("number", with the ablative denotations of "by the number, with the number")...

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"...

vocative, ablative, locative, and instrumental. The ablative occurs only in the singular, in free variation with oblique case plus ablative postposition...

accusative case, dative case, instrumental case, sociative case, locative case, ablative case, genitive case, and vocative case. If the plural is used, the noun...

receiving the sacrament of Penance. Grammatically, meā culpā is in the ablative case, with an instrumental meaning. At the sight of the crucifixion of...

Treatments can be classified as either physically ablative, or topical agents. Physically ablative therapies are considered more effective at initial...

linearia 'linear leaves'. Descriptions commonly refer to the plant using the ablative singular or plural, e.g. foliis ovatis 'with ovate leaves'. Glossary of...

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...

Greek neuter nouns in -ma (Gen., -matis) always make their dative and ablative plurals in -īs instead of -ibus. Proper names ending in -ē (fem.) and -ās...

languages, are, on the one hand, stili veteris (genitive) or stilo vetere (ablative), abbreviated st.v., and meaning "(of/in) old style"; and, on the other...