deforestation

Senso (Inglese)

  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.

Concetti

Opposto di
afforestation, reforestation
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/
Etimologia (Inglese)

From deforest + -ation. First attested in 1870.

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