ableism n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... n. Discrimination against people who are not able-bodied, or an assumption that it is necessary to cater only for able-bodied people. The term was coined by US feminists in the 1980s and was later used by the Council of the London Borough of Haringey in a press release in 1986 . Also spelt ablism . Compare ageism , ethnocentrism , fattism , heterosexism , racism , sexism , speciesism . ableist or ablist n. 1. One who practises or advocates ableism. adj. 2. Of or relating to ableism. [From able + Greek -ismos indicating a...
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James P. Sterba
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
... . Prejudice against people with disabilities, which can take many forms. It can take the form of a prejudice against using sign language with those who are deaf even when only a small percentage of them can master the alternatives of lipreading and speaking. It also shows itself as a prejudice against the use of Braille with the blind or visually impaired even when this makes them less efficient readers than they might be. In general, it is a prejudice against performing activities in ways that are better for disabled people. Prof. James P. Sterba See...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)
... . Discrimination in favour of able-bodied people or against the disabled (the latter also being termed ‘disablism’). The concept arose in the 1980s. See also Political correctness...
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Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage (3 ed.)
... , meaning ‘discrimination in favour of the abled’ (i.e. against people with disabilities), is first recorded in the US from the early 1980s. There is a corresponding adjective and noun ableist : The cover design appears to be rather male-dominated, white, ableist — Rouge , 1990 . So far, the spelling with -le- is much more common, with little evidence for the less satisfactory spellings ablism and ablist . See -ism...
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Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
...ableism , meaning ‘discrimination in favour of the abled’ (i.e. against people with disabilities), is first recorded in the US from the early 1980s. There is a corresponding adjective and noun ableist : The cover design appears to be rather male-dominated, white, ableist — Rouge , 1990 . Spelling both words with - ei - is preferable to the spellings ablism and ablist : at first glance they could make it look as if ab - sounds as it does in abdomen , and, presumably for that reason, are rather...
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Able Reference library
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
... 1881: 557; widespread in England: especially Norfolk. English: see Abel...
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Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 5010 1 English: variant of Able , with post-medieval excrescent -s . 2 Americanized form of German and Dutch Abels...
ablation Quick reference
A Dictionary of Dentistry (2 ed.)
...ablation n. The removal or excision of a piece of tissue, usually by surgery. Surface ablation of the skin may be carried out by chemicals or laser...
ablation Quick reference
A Dictionary of Geography (6 ed.)
... Loss of snow and ice from a glacier by sublimation, melting, and evaporation; and from the calving of icebergs, and avalanches. In temperate and subpolar regions melting is the major form of ablation; in the Antarctic, calving. The rate of loss varies with air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, insolation, aspect, and the nature of the surface. In snowfields, ablation includes snow removed by the wind, and is affected by aspect, depth of snow, and the nature of the underlying surface. The ablation sub-system , where annual ablation exceeds...
able Quick reference
Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins (3 ed.)
...able [ME] In the past able had the senses ‘easy to use’ and ‘suitable’ as well as the more familiar sense ‘having the qualifications or means’ to do something. It comes from Latin habilis ‘handy’ from habere ‘to hold’. The jargon term abled , as in differently abled , was formed in the 1980s from disabled [LME], from able with the negative dis - in front, although it has been in use in other ways since the late 16th...
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A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences (5 ed.)
... 1. Removal of snow and ice by melting and by direct alteration from the solid to the gaseous phase (sublimation). The rate of loss is controlled chiefly by air temperature, wind velocity, humidity , rainfall, and solar radiation . Ablation on snowfields is also influenced by aspect, depth of snow, and the nature of the underlying surface. Ablation till is the glacial debris that may be released. The ablation zone of a glacier is that area in which losses, including calving , exceed additions. 2. Removal of rock material, especially by wind...
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A Dictionary of Ecology (5 ed.)
... 1 Removal of snow and ice by melting and by direct alteration from the solid to the gaseous phase (sublimation). The rate of loss is controlled chiefly by air temperature, wind velocity, humidity , precipitation, and solar radiation. Ablation on snowfields is also influenced by aspect, depth of snow, and the nature of the underlying surface. Ablation till is the glacial deposit that may be released. The ablation zone of a glacier is that area in which losses, including calving , exceed additions. 2 The removal of rock material, especially by wind...
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Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 578 German: variant of Habler , which is a diminutive of Haber ‘grower of or dealer in oats’. Some characteristic forenames: German Wolf, Johann, Othmar,...
ablation Quick reference
A Dictionary of Weather (3 ed.)
... The removal of surface snow or ice by sublimation , melting, or evaporation . The term is sometimes extended to include snow removed by the wind ( deflation ) and also the calving of glaciers...
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A Dictionary of Astronomy (3 ed.)
... The wearing away of the outer layers of a body by melting, erosion, vaporization, or some other process due to aerodynamic effects as the body moves at high speed through a planetary atmosphere. Ablation can affect natural bodies such as meteoroids, or artificial objects such as spacecraft. Ablation of a spacecraft’s protective heat shield prevents overheating of the spacecraft’s interior during atmospheric...
