importation

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Etymology

From import + -ation.

Noun

importation

1. The act or an instance of importing.
2. The act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country.
3. That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.
4. (linguistics) The use of a term which consists of formally foreign elements.

   Hypernyms: loan

   Hyponyms: foreign word; loanword; hybrid; pseudo-loanword, pseudo-loan

   Coordinate term: substitution

5. (logic) The logical law (P \to (Q \to R))\Rightarrow ((P \land Q) \to R) .

Translations

• German: lexikalische Entlehnung, lexikalischer Import

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