deforestation

See also: déforestation

English

Etymology

From deforest +‎ -ation. First attested in 1870.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/, /ˌdiːfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/

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• 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.

   Antonyms: afforestation, reforestation

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:

     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.

   • 2021 November 2, Jim Tankersley, Katie Rogers, Lisa Friedman, “With Methane and Forest Deals, Climate Summit Offers Hope After Gloomy Start”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     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.

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

Derived terms

• antideforestation
• nondeforestation

Translations

process of destroying a forest

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: абязле́сенне n (abjazljésjennje) 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 (de) f, Kahlschlag (de) m Greek: αποψίλωση (el) f (apopsílosi) Hungarian: erdőirtás (hu) Indonesian: pengawahutanan, deforestasi (id) Italian: deforestazione (it) f Khmer: ការកាប់បំផ្លាញព្រៃឈើ (kaakapbɑmpliəñprɨychəə) Korean: 산림 파괴(山林破壞) (sallim pagoe) Lao: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: обесшумување n (obesšumuvanje), голосек m (golosek) Malay: penyahhutanan Maori: whakarakenga Norwegian: Bokmål: avskoging m or f Nynorsk: avskoging f Occitan: desforestacion f Polish: wylesianie (pl) n Portuguese: desmatamento m, desflorestamento m Romanian: despădurire (ro) f Russian: обезле́сение (ru) n (obezlésenije), вы́рубка ле́са f (výrubka lésa) Serbo-Croatian: deforestacija f, rašumljavanje f Spanish: desmontadura f, deforestación (es) f Swedish: skogsskövling c, avskogning (sv) c Tagalog: higubat Turkish: ormansızlaştırma Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: phá rừng (vi) Yoruba: ìpagbórun

Further reading

• deforestation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia