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remotion
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun remotion has 1 sense
- remotion(n = noun.act) removal - the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy" is a kind of separation
has particulars: abscission, cutting off, abstraction, extraction, autotomy, decontamination, deletion, baring, denudation, husking, stripping, uncovering, dermabrasion, dislodgement, dislodgment, elimination, riddance, elimination, emptying, evacuation, voidance, rinse, rinsing, disembowelment, evisceration, skimming, withdrawal, withdrawal
Derived form verb remove1
CIDE DICTIONARY
remotion, n. [L. remotio. See Remove.].
- The act of removing; removal. [1913 Webster]"This remotion of the duke and her
Is practice only." [1913 Webster] - The state of being remote; remoteness. [1913 Webster]"The whitish gleam [of the stars] was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion." [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
remotion
Transference
N transfer, transference, translocation, elocation, displacement, metastasis, metathesis, removal, remotion, amotion, relegation, deportation, asportation, extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage, convection, conduction, contagion, transfer, transit, transition, passage, ferry, gestation, portage, porterage, carting, cartage, shoveling, vection, vecture, vectitation, shipment, freight, wafture, transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation, shifting, dodging, dispersion, transposition, traction, drift, transferred, drifted, movable, portable, portative, mailable, contagious, from hand to hand, from pillar to post, on the way, by the way, on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course, as one goes, in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course.
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