deforestation

See also: déforestation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French déforestation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

deforestation (countable and uncountable, plural deforestations)

1. The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system. [from 1874]

   Antonyms: afforestation, reforestation

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (computing theory) A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.

Translations

process of destroying a forest

• Catalan: desforestació f
• Danish: afskovning c
• Dutch: ontbossing (nl) f
• Esperanto: senarbarigo
• Finnish: metsän hävittäminen
• French: déforestation (fr) f, déboisement (fr) m
• Galician: deforestación (gl) f
• Georgian: გაუტყევება (gauṭq̇eveba)
• German: Abholzung (de) f, Entwaldung f
• Greek: αποψίλωση (el) f (apopsílosi)
• Hungarian: erdőirtás (hu)
• Italian: deforestazione (it) f
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• Lao: please add this translation if you can
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• Maori: whakarakenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avskoging m or f

  Nynorsk: avskoging f

• Occitan: desforestacion f
• Portuguese: desmatamento m, desflorestamento m
• Romanian: despădurire (ro) f
• Russian: обезле́сение (ru) n (obezlésenije), вы́рубка ле́са f (výrubka lésa)
• Spanish: desmontadura f, deforestación (es) f
• Swedish: skogsskövling c, avskogning (sv) c
• Tagalog: higubat
• Vietnamese: phá rừng

Further reading

• deforestation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia