remotion
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹɪˈməʊʃən/
remotion
- (zoology, chiefly, entomology) Backward motion. (Contrast promotion.)
- 1995, Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology ISBN 079233471X, 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 ISBN 1402062427, volume 4, 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 […]
- 1995, Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology ISBN 079233471X, page 63:
- (especially, logic, largely obsolete) Removal.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, II.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.
- 2003, 2001. a Clay Odyssey ISBN 0080929893, page 619:
- The remotion of Cr3+ from the wastewater prevents its possible oxidation.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, II.ii:
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