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^[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.

   • 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^[2], →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.

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)
• 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