depletion

See also: déplétion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin depletio, depletionem, from depleō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈpliːʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

depletion (countable and uncountable, plural depletions)

1. The act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion.
   • 1954 May, John W. Grant, “A Railway Requiem”, in Railway Magazine, page 351:

     The Great Northern 4-4-0s have all vanished, and there has been some depletion in the ranks of North British "Glens" and "Scotts."

2. The consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished.
3. (medicine, archaic) The act of relieving congestion or plethora, by purging, blood-letting, or reduction of the system by abstinence.
4. (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

• deplete

Translations

exhaustion

• Catalan: exhauriment m
• German: Erschöpfen n, Erschöpfung (de) f
• Irish: laghdú m
• Italian: esaurimento (it) m
• Korean: 소모 (ko) (somo)
• Maori: whakataweketanga
• Portuguese: esgotamento (pt) m, exaustão (pt) f, depleção (pt) f

consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished

• German: Leerung f, Schwund (de) m, Abbau (de) m, Verarmung (de) f
• Korean: 고갈 (ko) (gogal)
• Portuguese: esgotamento (pt) m, depleção (pt) f

gradual expense or use of natural resources over time

• Indonesian: deplesi (id)
• Malay: susutan

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