REMOTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remotion mean? 

• REMOTION (noun)
  The noun REMOTION has 1 sense:

1. the act of removing

  Familiarity information: REMOTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMOTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of removing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

remotion; removal

Context example:

he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy

Hypernyms ("remotion" is a kind of...):

separation (the act of dividing or disconnecting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remotion"):

dislodgement; dislodgment (forced removal from a position of advantage)

withdrawal (the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.)

withdrawal (the act of taking out money or other capital)

skimming (the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid)

disembowelment; evisceration (the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude)

rinse; rinsing (the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing)

emptying; evacuation; voidance (the act of removing the contents of something)

elimination (the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations)

elimination; riddance (the act of removing or getting rid of something)

abscission; cutting off (the act of cutting something off)

dermabrasion (removal of scars or tattoos by anesthetizing the skin surface and then sanding or scraping off some of the outer skin layer)

baring; denudation; husking; stripping; uncovering (the removal of covering)

deletion (the act of deleting something written or printed)

decontamination (the removal of contaminants)

autotomy (spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack)

extraction (the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force))

abstraction (the act of withdrawing or removing something)

Derivation:

remove (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)