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n (obsolete) A carrying or taking away; removal. (defdate|First attested around 1350 to 1470.)(reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =Brown, Lesley | others = | title = The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =Oxford University Press | location =Oxford, UK | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =5| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =)
n (medicine) The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation. (defdate|First attested around 1350 to 1470.)
n (sciences) The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as vaporization under heat or chipping. (defdate|Mid 20th century.)
n (geology) The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion, mass wasting. (defdate|Mid 20th century.)