deforestation

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

deforestation
    n 1: the state of being clear of trees
    2: the removal of trees [syn: {deforestation}, {disforestation}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

deforestation

   <programming> A technique invented by {Phil Wadler} for
   eliminating intermediate data structures built and passed
   between composed functions in {function languages}.

   (1997-06-21)