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  Ablative case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Latin ablative combines the functions of the Indo-European ablative (indicating "from"), instrumental (indicating "with" or "by"), and locative (indicating "in") cases, which merged together in the development of Latin.
From these original meanings several others developed, including the ablative of cause (indicating "caused by"), the ablative of time and means (indicating "at the time of", deriving from the locative), and the ablative absolute.
In Finnish, the ablative case is the sixth of the locative cases with the meaning "from off of", e.g.
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 ABLATIVE
Caesare duce: Similarly, this kind of ablative absolute may be analyzed as a temporal ablative (that is, a metaphorical extension of the locative case) or as an associative-instrumental ablative (for instance, in the sense of "with Caesar being the leader").
Degree of Difference: The Ablative of Degree of difference is a development of the ablative of means: the amount of the difference being considered the means by which something is different.
The Ablative of Respect seems to have had a composite origin or was influenced at least by two different case-functions: the locative function and the instrumental function.
omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /latin/grammar/ablative_case.htm   (1040 words)

  
 ablative on Encyclopedia.com
Ablative pitfalls: erythema to be expected; other complications can be avoided with attention to detail.
Nephron-sparing surgery: minimally invasive techniques: newer ablative modalities may supplant extirpative treatment but remain in evolution.
Better ablative material for the protection of rocket assemblies.
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 Ablative case - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Latin ablative combines the Indo-European ablative (indicating "from"), instrumental (indicating "with" or "by") and locative (indicating "in") cases.
The ablative absolute construction in Latin, bane of many students, is a development from these uses of the ablative.
In the Finnish language (suomi), the ablative case is the sixth of the locative cases with the basic meaning "from off of" - a poor English equivalent, but necessary to distinguish it from "from out of" which would be Elative case.
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 Ablative coating composition and product - Patent 4595714   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When ablative material is exposed not only to heat but to the erosive effects of a blast or stream of hot gas or plasma, energy is locally absorbed from the hot gas by melting or vaporization occurring at the surface of the ablative material.
Ablative performance involving rapid char induction and lasting char stability is attained in the coating of this invention through the use of fibers in conjunction with a mixture of glass-forming inorganics which also meet the requirement of providing a Lewis acid.
The effectiveness of these cured compositions as ablative coatings in the erosive environment of the test used was determined by measuring the total volume of coating removed and observing the erosion profile of the cross-sectioned substrate.
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 Ablative absolute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Latin grammar, the ablative absolute (Ablativus absolutus) is a noun phrase cast in the ablative case.
The ablative absolute is grammatically independent of the rest of the sentence.
The ablative absolute construction is sometimes imitated in English in a construction called the nominative absolute: "The Americans, their independence secured, formed a government." But the construction is rarer and less natural in English than it is in Latin.
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 Latin Grammar Aid: Ablative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
ablative separation : that man is WITHOUT THE SENSE of a wart hog.
ablative agent : he was killed BY ARCHERS.
ablative agent : he was captured BY SOLDIERS of Count Robert.
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 ABLATIVE - LoveToKnow Article on ABLATIVE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The " Ablative Absolute," a grammatical construction in Latin, consists of a noun in the ablative case, with a participle, attribute or qualifying word agreeing with it, not depending on any other part of the sentence, to express the time, occasion or circumstance of a fact.
The purport, then, of ablutions is to remove, not dust and dirt, but theto us imaginarystains contracted by contact with the dead, with childbirth, with menstruous.women, with murder whether wilf,ul or involuntary, with almost any form of bloodshed, with persons of inferior caste, with dead animal refuse, e.g.
The patient's skin burns, that of a frog is cold to the touch; therefore tie to the foot of the bed a frog, bound with red and fl thread, and wash down the sick man so that the water of ablution falls
www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AB/ABLATIVE.htm   (295 words)

  
 Variant Ablative DR Rules
Any armour which gets worse after taking damage is "ablative", though the special effect can be described in any number of ways: a force-field gradually weakening, scales and hide being shot up, ice or "solid energy" being chipped away, concentration fading, etc..
Not all Ablative DR is worn away at the same rate.
Ablative DR is a limitation on normal DR, with the degree to which it ablates determining its value (see Table I).
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 Latin tutorial: Ablatives
The ablative case is the case of averbial relations showing where, whence, and wherewith.
Derived from the ablative of personal agent, ablative of person through whom expresses the doer of an action as a means to accomplishing that action.
The ablative usually combined with a participle also in the ablative, but sometimes with another substantive or adjective in the ablative instead.
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 Chapter 24
Note that the "absolute" part of the ablative absolute means that the construction is grammatically "removed" from the main sentence.
In other words, the subject of the ablative absolute should not be a constituent of the main sentence, in theory—there are, however, many exceptions in Latin—and if the noun in the ablative absolute is used elsewhere in the sentence, the participle should be attached to the noun there, making an ablative absolute unnecessary.
Since no dative form will ever be the object of a free-standing preposition, there can be no distinction in the passive periphrastic between personal and impersonal agent, in the same way that the presence or absence of the preposition ab distinguishes agents in other passive constructions.
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 KET | DL | Latin III | Grammatica | Participles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
An Ablative Absolute phrase is used when a thought, condition or action is grammatically separate but modifies the meaning of the rest of the sentence.
The ablative absolute is sometimes called an adverbial phrase because it modifies the whole sentence as an adverb modifies the action of a verb.
Nuntium, although not in the ablative case, is considered part of the AA phrase because it is direct object of the active participle.
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 Encyclopedia article on Ablative case [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In linguistics, the ablative case is a noun case found in several languages, including Latin, Sanskrit and in the Finno-Ugric languages.
The Latin ablative combines the functions of the Indo-European ablative (indicating "from"), instrumental (indicating "with" or "by"), and locative (indicating "in") cases.
It is an outer locative case, used just as he adessive and allative cases to denote both being on top of something and "being around the place" (as opposed to the inner locative case, the elative, which means "from out of" or "from the inside of").
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 Ablative Armour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ablative armour was originally developed for the USS Defiant; the Borg had proven their ability to penetrate Federation shields with ease during their encounter with the Enterprise at system J-25, and the Defiant designers wanted the ship to have a degree of protection even if the shields should be overcome in the expected future encounters.
Like the Borg, the Dominion were able to penetrate Federation shielding systems relatively easily in the first years of hostility between the two powers, and the Defiant's ablative armour allowed the ship to withstand attacks that would have otherwise caused significant damage.
This device was given to the crew of the USS Voyager by a future version of Admiral Janeway, who travelled back in time to the ship in order to assist them in returning home from the Delta Quadrant.
www.pbem-portal.com /trek/starbase_apollo/ablative.htm   (334 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ablative case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ablation is defined as the removal of material from the surface of an object by vaporization, chipping, or other erosive processes.
In Latin grammar, the ablative absolute is a noun phrase cast in the ablative case.
The case also exists in 3 kinds besides its direct purpose and Ablativus absolutus: In Latin grammar, the ablative absolute is a noun phrase cast in the ablative case.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ablative-case   (1851 words)

  
 Optical recording device having several ablative recording layers - Patent 4290075
The invention relates to an optical recording device having a substrate plate which is provided on at least one side with a first ablative recording layer and a second ablative recording layer provided hereon, the second ablative recording layer having a higher surface energy than the second ablative recording layer.
The invention relates to a device for the optical recording of information comprising a substrate plate having on at least one side an ablative recording layer which locally melts and forms holes as a result of exposure to laser light modulated in accordance with the information to be written.
As a result of the exposure to the writing laser light, holes 16 are formed in the recording layers 14 and 15 and comprise a ridge 17 bearing on the surface of the recording layer 15 with a semicircular profile.
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 C.E. Jordan Senior High Latin Club
Agent: The ablative with a or ab is used with a passive verb to show the person (or animal) by whom something is done.
In translating, an ablative absolute should, as a rule, be changed to a clause expressing time, cause, condition, means, or concession, according to the context.
With Prepositions: The ablative is used with the prepositions ab, cum, de, ex, prae, pro, sine; sometimes with in and sub.
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 Here are the main prepositions that use the ablative case
Perhaps the most important use of the ablative case is with prepositions.
Prepositions and the nouns or pronouns they go with show direction toward, time, the means by which something is done, where and when something is done, purpose, and various other kinds of directions.
Below are the major prepositions that take the ablative case and what they mean.
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 Ablative forms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the first declension, the ablative endings are:
In the second declension, the ablative endings are:
In the third declension, the ablative endings are:
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 Verbs and syntax IX: ablative absolute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The ablative absolute is the Rolls-Royce of Latin constructions: it's elegant, it's powerful, it's classy, and it's not really English.
It's so called because it sticks in the ablative any words that are absolutely detached from the rest of the sentence.
Contrary to what the book says, the ablative absolute is consistently translatable, though it won't always sound very idiomatic in English: you can (nearly) always just translate it as an ordinary ablative with "with" (as opposed to "by", "from", and "in").
www.rhul.ac.uk /Classics/NJL/Latin/verbs9.html   (223 words)

  
 NASA - Modeling Ablative (TPS)
While Ablative TPS has been used in previous lunar and interplanetary missions, new TPS materials tailored to specific missions will help improve performance and increase science payload.
Because TPS is a single point-of-failure subsystem, the development of advanced ablative TPS is an important part in future space missions.
The function of an ablative TPS depends critically on its ablation and pyrolysis properties, and surface catalytic efficiency.
www.nasa.gov /centers/ames/research/technology-onepagers/modeling-ablative-tps.html   (713 words)

  
 AUTOS & BOATS : Enhancements : Bottom Painting: Applying Ablative Anti-fouling Paint : DIY Network
In this segment, host John Greviskis is ready to apply the ablative anti-fouling paint.
This paint also is considered an ablative paint, which means it will wear away -- just like a bar of soap in the shower.
The reason you want this type of paint is that each time it gets worn down or washes away, the paint releases (figure A -- an illustration of how the paint releases) fresh copper and biocides to the surface of the boat, which in turn repels barnacles and other growth.
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 Ablative of Origin
The ablative without a preposition can be used to express the origin from which someone or something came.
Quintus libertino patre natus est, "Quintus was born of a freedman father".
Note how this construction is very similar to an ablative of separation.
www.personal.kent.edu /~bkharvey/latin/cases/caseablo.htm   (80 words)

  
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The ablative case is used to designate three types of ideas: seperation, instrumentality, and location.
If the passive verb is performed by an inanimate agent use the ablative of means or instrument.
The ablative of time within which will often take the preposition in to avoid confusion with the ablative of time when.
abacus.bates.edu /acad/depts/crll/latin101/Chapter20/abl.con.htm   (379 words)

  
 Lesson XVII
There is a very useful construction called the ablative absolute that compensates for the usually subordinate role of the ablative.
Use an ablative absolute to say "After the rabbits [cuniculus] were eaten [esus], we sang a song." "After the rabbits were eaten" is the condition we want in the ablative absolute, and "we sang a song" is the main sentence.
The subject or object in the ablative absolute cannot be the same as the subject of the sentence, however.
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 Ablative Constructions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
You've learned to translate "ab" plus the ablative, for example, as "from, away from."
c) a location (in the ablative) that is the object of the preposition.
b) a noun in the ablative indicating what the subject of the verb is separated from.
abacus.bates.edu /acad/depts/crll/latin101/Chapter20/abl.htm   (150 words)

  
 OLC III.40:Uses of the ablative
Of course, Latin has prepositions--lots of them, governing the accusative and ablative cases--but the bottom line is this: the role played by prepositional phrases in English may be performed in Latin by the simple use of certain case in a certain context.
Always used in conjunction with an adjective or adverb in the comparative degree, often with an ablative of comparison.
Generally used with abstract nouns; the ablative phrase is almost equivalent to an adverb.
www.jburroughs.org /classics/curriculum/olc3/40_tutorial.html   (627 words)

  
 Latin Ablative Absolutes
Show me some examples of the English equivalent to the ablative absolute construction.
Show me some Latin ablative absolutes with translations.
are Latin phrases based on a word in the ablative case and in a way detached or set off or loosened from the rest of the sentence.
www.slu.edu /colleges/AS/languages/classical/latin/tchmat/grammar/whprax/w24-aa.html   (596 words)

  
 Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar, section 103
In the nominative, accusative, and dative or ablative plural:
In the nominative, genitive, and dative or ablative plural:
Noun found in the genitive, accusative, ablative singular; nominative, accusative, dative, ablative plural: vicis, -em, -e; -és, -ibus.
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