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adduction

/əˈdʌk.ʃn̩/

adduction noun: the act of adducing or bringing forward.

Noun

adduction (countable and uncountable, plural adductions)

  1. The act of adducing or bringing forward.
    • an adduction of facts gathered from various quarters1860, Isaac Taylor, “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC
  2. The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis
    • Coordinate term: circumduction
    Antonyms:
    abduction

adduction meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Indonesian

adduction in Hindi

physiology: action
अभिवर्तन abhivartan

adduction in Tamil

ஒடுக்கம், ஒடுக்கல், உள்வாங்கல், அடக்கல்

adduction in Kannada

ಒಳಸರಿಕೆ, ಒಳಗೆಳೆತ, ಒಳತರುವೆ

adduction in Indonesian

physiology: action
aduksi

Antonyms of adduction

Forms of adduction

pluraladductions

Origin of adduction

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.

Words formed from adduction

Questions about adduction

What does adduction mean?
Adduction means the act of adducing or bringing forward.
What is adduction in Hindi?
Adduction in Hindi is अभिवर्तन (abhivartan). See Adduction meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is adduction?
Adduction is a noun.
How do you pronounce adduction?
Adduction is pronounced /əˈdʌk.ʃn̩/.
What is the plural of adduction?
The plural of adduction is adductions.

Words near adduction in the dictionary

  1. adducins
  2. Adducis
  3. adduct
  4. adducted
  5. adducting
  6. adduction
  7. adductions
  8. adductive
  9. adductively
  10. adductome
  11. adductomes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adduction (page history and authors); adduction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adduction (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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