What is "ablate"

Usage examples of "ablate".

Those that remained were vacuum ablating, their edges fraying like worn cloth, while their flat surfaces slowly dissolved, reducing their overall thickness.

According to his suit sensors, the spaces between the interlocking struts contained a thin molecular haze from the slowly ablating metal.

B-39 Peacemaker force has been tasked by SIOP with maintaining an XK-Pluto capability directed at ablating the ability of the Russians to activate Project Koschei, the dormant alien entity they captured from the Nazis at the end of the last war.

In her case, in addition to severing the fibers of the ansa, it was necessary to ablate some cells in the substantia nigra that were sending out conflicting signals.

And it was wrapped in protective material which ablated away as it came through the fires of the upper atmosphere.

The shuttle was descending rapidly through the air, falling through the sky, shifting from side to side, the delta wings groaning as they tried to cope with stresses they were not designed to withstand, the heat building to near intolerable levels as the tiles ablated too and the air conditioning began to fail.

It was ablating slowly in the heat of the distant sun, and infrared wisps of volatiles puffed here and there from cracks in the bluish ice.

Those that remained were vacuum ablating, their edges fraying like worn cloth, while their flat surfaces slowly dissolved, reducing their overall thickness.

As it descended into the sun's interior, the outer layers of the object were of course ablated away, but five Jupiters made it to the core.

Its nose cone was scratched and scarred, ablated in patches from the rough passage through the interstellar medium.