different between removal vs remotion

English

Etymology

remove +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???mu?v?l/

• Rhymes: -u?v?l

Noun

removal (countable and uncountable, plural removals)

1. The process of moving, or the fact of being removed.
2. The relocation of a business etc.
3. The dismissal of someone from office.
4. (Ireland) An evening funeral ritual in which the coffin holding the deceased is brought, usually from a funeral home, to the church where the funeral mass will be celebrated the following day. Prayers are said before and after the journey, after which mourners are typically received at the home of the deceased.
5. (slang, euphemistic) Murder.

Synonyms

• (moving to another place): move, relocation

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• vomeral

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