abduction
nounEtymology
From Latin abductiō(n) (“robbing; abduction”), from abdūcō (“take or lead away”), from ab (“away”) + dūcō (“to lead”). By surface analysis, abduct + -ion or abduce + -tion. * (physiology): From French, from Latin abductus. * Compare French abduction.
- derived from abductus
Definitions
Leading away
Leading away; a carrying away.
The act of abducing or abducting
The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
- Abduction is performed by asking the patient to raise the arm at the side as high as they can with the examiner stabilizing the scapula by holding it down.
A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is…
A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
- The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction, and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.
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The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
- the abduction of a child
Alien abduction.
- But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.
The neighborhood
- synonymretroduction
- synonymabstraction
- antonymadductionantonym(s) of “physiology”
- antonymreplacementantonym(s) of “physiology”
- antonymrestitutionantonym(s) of “physiology”
- antonymrestorationantonym(s) of “physiology”
- antonymsurrenderantonym(s) of “physiology”
- antonymreinstatementantonym(s) of “physiology”
- neighborabduce
- neighborabduct
- neighborabductive
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for abduction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA