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remotions

remotions is the plural of remotion.

Meaning of remotion

Noun

remotion (countable and uncountable, plural remotions)

  1. Backward motion.
    • 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.1995, Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology, →ISBN, page 63
  2. (especially, largely obsolete) Removal.
    • This act persuades me / That this remotion of the Duke and her / Is practice only.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Questions about remotions

What is remotions the plural of?
Remotions is the plural of remotion.

Words near remotions in the dictionary

  1. remothball
  2. remothballed
  3. remothballing
  4. remoting
  5. remotion
  6. remotions
  7. remotivate
  8. remotivated
  9. remotivates
  10. remotivating
  11. remotivation

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