adduction

noun
/əˈdʌk.ʃn̩/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adductio, adductionis, from adducō (“to bring to oneself”), from ad + ducō (“to lead”). Compare French adduction. Equivalent to adduct + -ion or adduce + -tion. See adduce.

  1. borrowed from adductio

Definitions

  1. The act of adducing or bringing forward.

    • an adduction of facts gathered from various quarters
  2. The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis

    • Coordinate term: circumduction

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for adduction. 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