ablative in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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They decline in five cases, nominative, accusative, genitive, allative and ablative.
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More specifically, it consists of a noun or pronoun and either a past participle, a present participle, an adjective, or an appositive noun, all in the ablative.
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The momentum generated by this evaporation could significantly increase the thrust generated by solar sails, as a form of lightweight ablative laser propulsion.
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Most space capsules have used an ablative heat shield for reentry and been non-reusable.
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The aeroshell with its ablative heat shield slowed the craft as it plunged through the atmosphere.
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It was lengthened, a pair of auxiliary fuel tanks attached beneath its fuselage and wings, and a complete heat-resistant ablative coating was added.
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The radar section consisted of the radar unit with the antenna enclosed in an ablative radome.
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For instance, in the sentence below, the ablative is from (across the ocean).
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What looks like an ablative gerund is usually an adverb; the ending "-meden" usually has the sense of without.
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Cases such as the ablative are therefore called adverbial.
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