depletion
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See also: déplétion
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin depletio, depletionem, from depleō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪˈpliːʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
depletion (countable and uncountable, plural depletions)
- The act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion.
- The consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished.
- (medicine, archaic) The act of relieving congestion or plethora, by purging, blood-letting, or reduction of the system by abstinence.
- (accounting, mining, timber, petroleum) gradual expense or use of natural resources over time.
Derived terms
- allodepletion
- codepletion
- depletional
- haplodepletion
- hemodepletion
- hyperdepletion
- immunodepletion
- leucodepletion
- leukodepletion
- lymphodepletion
- magnetodepletion
- mucodepletion
- myelodepletion
- nondepletion
- oxygen depletion
- photodepletion
- ribodepletion
- stimulated emission depletion microscope
- stimulated emission depletion microscopy
Related terms
Translations
exhaustion
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consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished
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