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deforestation

noun
/dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/UK

Etymology

From deforest + -ation. First attested in 1870.

  1. formed as deforestation — “deforest + -ation”

Definitions

  1. The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with…

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

  2. A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for deforestation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA