Relating to or involving ablation; capable of being worn away or ablated.
From 'ablation' (itself from Latin 'ablatus') + suffix '-itious' (meaning 'of the nature of'). A rare technical term from scientific vocabulary.
This obscure adjective is a linguist's favorite—it's so specialized that even many scientists don't use it, yet it precisely describes the material properties engineers care about.
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