English

Noun

remotion ‎(plural remotions)

1. (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 […]

2. (chiefly 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.

   • 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 0080929893), page 619:

     The remotion of Cr3+ from the wastewater prevents its possible oxidation.