remotion

English

Etymology

From Old French or directly from Latin remōtiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈməʊʃən/

Noun

remotion (countable and uncountable, plural remotions)

1. (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 […]

2. (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.

Anagrams

• Monte Rio, Monteiro, motioner