1. ablative - Noun
2. ablative - Adjective
4. ablative - Adjective Satellite
Taking away or removing.
Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
The ablative case.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe coffee having arrived (how hard it is to write without the ablative absolute!) we guzzled genteelly for a while... Kyril Bonfiglioli
ablative material on a rocket cone Source: Internet
Ablative Ablative heat shield (after use) on Apollo 12 capsule The ablative heat shield functions by lifting the hot shock layer gas away from the heat shield's outer wall (creating a cooler boundary layer ). Source: Internet
Basque In Basque there are two classes, animate and inanimate; however, the only difference is in the declension of locative cases (inessive, locative genitive, allative, terminal allative, ablative and directional ablative). Source: Internet
Czech has both instrumental and vocative cases, but lacks an ablative, which was largely replaced by either the genitive or instrumental case. Source: Internet
E.g. (ablative) in casā, "in the cottage"; (accusative) in casam, "into the cottage". Source: Internet