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Deforestation

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system. countable, uncountable

    "Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands."

  2. 2
    the removal of trees wordnet
  3. 3
    A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the state of being clear of trees wordnet

Etymology

From deforest + -ation. First attested in 1870.

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