deforestation
/dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.20 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands."
- "The world leaders gathered at a crucial climate summit secured new agreements on Tuesday to end deforestation and reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane, building momentum as the conference prepared to shift to a more grueling two weeks of negotiations on how to avert the planet’s catastrophic warming."
Etymology
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.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/