deforestation
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deforestation
[dē‚fär·ə′stā·shən] (forestry)
The act or process of removing trees from or clearing aforest.
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Deforestation
To cut down and clear away the trees or forests from an area.
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deforestation
(programming)A technique invented by Phil Wadler for
eliminating intermediate data structures built and passed
between composed functions in function languages.
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