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erottaminen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • clearing noun An open area within a forest or wooded area with no trees.
  • diaeresis noun In linguistics, the splitting of what would normally be one syllable, especially a diphthong, into two separate syllables, or a gap between vowel sounds in neighboring syllables with no consonant between them.
  • firing noun The act of shooting a weapon.
  • removal noun The act of taking something away or getting rid of it.
  • separation noun The act or state of two or more things or people being kept or held apart.

Senses

erottaminen is used for these senses in English:

  • burn notice (espionage) An announcement of dismissal of an agent or source which an intelligence agency considers to have become unreliable.
  • clearing (telecommunication) A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
  • diaeresis (surgery, archaic) An act of separating body parts or tissues which are normally together.
  • firing The dismissal of someone from a job due to poor work performance.
  • removal (Ireland) An evening funeral ritual in which the coffin holding the deceased is brought, usually from a funeral home, to the church where the funeral mass will be celebrated the following day. Prayers are said before and after the journey, after which mourners are typically received at the home of the deceased.
  • separation The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.

clearing — full definition

  1. noun An open area within a forest or wooded area with no trees.
  2. noun The processing of financial transactions, such as checks or payments, through a central system.

diaeresis — full definition

  1. noun In linguistics, the splitting of what would normally be one syllable, especially a diphthong, into two separate syllables, or a gap between vowel sounds in neighboring syllables with no consonant between them.
  2. noun The mark of two dots placed over a vowel, usually the second of two vowels in a row, to show that it is pronounced as its own syllable.
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