different between departure vs remotion

English

Etymology

From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p??(?)tj?(?)/, /d??p??(?)t???(?)/

Noun

departure (countable and uncountable, plural departures)

1. The act of departing or something that has departed.
2. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
   • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II

     any departure from a national standard

   There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.

3. (euphemistic) A death.
   • His timely departure […] barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.

4. (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.
5. (surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.

6. (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.

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7. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

Synonyms

• leaving

Antonyms

• arrival

Related terms

• depart
• departure lounge
• departure tax

Translations

Further reading

• departure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• apertured

English

Etymology

From Old French or directly from Latin rem?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???m????n/

Noun

remotion (countable and uncountable, plural remotions)

1. (zoology, chiefly entomology) Backward motion. (Contrast promotion.)
   • 1995, Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology ?ISBN, 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, 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. (especially 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.

   • 2003, 2001. a Clay Odyssey ?ISBN, page 619:

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

Anagrams

• Monte Rio, Monteiro, motioner