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