remotion

1. (zoology, chiefly entomology) Backward motion.Examples: "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 […]"countableuncountable

2. (especially logic, largely obsolete) Removal.Examples: "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."countableespeciallyuncountable