deforestation

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system.
2. (countable, uncountable) A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.

Teenoorgestelde van

afforestation, reforestation

Sinonieme

disforestation

deforest

felling

lumbering

riddance

disafforestation

disforesting

clearance

overcutting

Vertalings

deforestazione

déforestation

deforestación

Entwaldung

déboisement

Abholzung

diboscamento

desflorestação

desmatamento

ontbossing

إزالة الغابات

desflorestamento

desforestació

disboscamento

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/

Etimologie (Engels)

From deforest + -ation. First attested in 1870.