remotion
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French or directly from Latin remōtiō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
remotion (countable and uncountable, plural remotions)
- (zoology, chiefly entomology) Backward motion.
- Coordinate term: promotion
- 1995, Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology, →ISBN, page 63:
- By simple promotion and remotion, assisted by some flexure and extension, the distal spines of each would reach and scratch the substratum and, on remotion, sweep coarse particles posteriorly and dorsally.
- 2008, John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology, volume 4, →ISBN, page 3326:
- In other arthropods, promotion-remotion of the leg is accomplished at other joints. For example, in spiders promotion-remotion occurs at the coxa-trochanter joint, insects utilize the body-coxa joint, and […]
- (especially logic, largely obsolete) Removal.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- This act persuades me / That this remotion of the Duke and her / Is practice only.
- 1847, Murray's Compendium of logic, with a corrected Latin text, page 155:
- A syllogism disjunctive from the enumeration of the parts is that, in which from the remotion of all the parts the remotion of the whole is concluded.
- 1857, John Daniel Morell, Handbook of logic, page 51:
- We may proceed from the remotion of the consequent to the remotion of the antecedent.
- 2003, 2001. a Clay Odyssey, →ISBN, page 619:
- The remotion of Cr3+ from the wastewater prevents its possible oxidation.