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deforestation

/dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/ · noun

Meaning

  1. 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.

Etymology / origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English forest English deforest Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English deforestation From deforest + -ation. First attested in 1870.

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