remotion

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “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. (countable, especially, uncountable)Removal.

   “This act persuades me / That this remotion of the Duke and her / Is practice only.”

   “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.”

   “We may proceed from the remotion of the consequent to the remotion of the antecedent.”

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