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1.nounA carrying or taking away; removal.
2.nounThe surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.
3.nounThe progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as vaporization under heat or chipping.
4.nounThe removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion, mass wasting.
5.nounThe depletion of surface snow and ice by melting and evaporation.