ablation

derekleffew

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Fancy word for "cut."

From theFreeDictionary.com:
1. Surgical excision or amputation of a body part or tissue.
2. The erosive processes by which a glacier is reduced.
3. Aerospace The dissipation of heat generated by atmospheric friction, especially in the atmospheric reentry of a spacecraft or missile, by means of a melting heat shield.

Certain steel gobos are manufactured using a process of laser ablation.
 

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