depletion
noun/dɪˈpliːʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin depletio, depletionem, from depleō.
1
The act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion.
- The Great Northern 4-4-0s have all vanished, and there has been some depletion in the ranks of North British "Glens" and "Scotts."1954 May, John W. Grant, “A Railway Requiem”, in Railway Magazine, page 351:
2
The consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished.
4
Accounting, Business, Finance, Mining gradual expense or use of natural resources over time.
Timber industry; oil industry; timber industry; oil industry
- 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