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Ablation vs Melting - What's the difference?

ablation | melting |

As nouns the difference between ablation and melting

is that ablation is (obsolete) a carrying or taking away; removal while melting is the process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.

As a verb melting is

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As an adjective melting is

which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.

ablation

English

(wikipedia ablation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A carrying or taking away; removal.
  • (medicine) The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.
  • (sciences) The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as vaporization under heat or chipping.
  • (geology) The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion, mass wasting.

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    melting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
  • Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
  • * 1714 , Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock , I.i:
    • What guards the purities of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?

    Noun

    (wikipedia melting) (en noun)
  • The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=The climate of Tibet: Pole-land
    • , date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80 , magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}