abduction

Definition of abduction in English English dictionary: Determining the best or most plausible of many possible explanations for a set of facts; The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. — Roget; The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being
the abduction of a child.; The process of inference to the best explanation; abductive reasoning; The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body; A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable
The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction, and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.; The process used in getting students to see disciplinary regularity through the use of metaphor; a carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally; {n} the act of drawing back or away; The movement of a body part away from the midline; Moving or pushing an arm or leg away from the body; Moving a limb or any other part away from the midline of the body Abduction is the opposite of adduction (e g the "up" phase of a jumping jack involves the abduction of the legs and the arms, or spreading of the fingers and toes); Backward chaining through fault models; To take someone away from a place without that person's consent or by fraud See also " kidnapping"; Movement away from midline of body in frontal plane; applied to hip, shoulder, fingers, thumb, and foot; Movement of one body part at an angle away from the rest of the body (e g , finger away from rest of hand; arm away from torso); The movement of a body part away from the midline axis of the body [ compare adduction ]; To take someone away from a place without that person's consent or by fraud See also "kidnapping"; (Ab*duc"tion) n [L abductio: cf F abduction ]; move away from the midline; Development of a hypothesis to explain observations; frequently used in diagnostic expert systems; can lead to false conclusions For example, a particular instance of wind destruction by a microburst might be initially ascribed to a tornado Compare deduction, induction; particularly studied by Budd Hokins and John Mack, the word's used to describe cases of people taken inside UFOs and examined by their pilots; Movement away from the mid-line of the body I e Lateral Raises; close to the body; the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family relationship and against the wife; Movement of the arms or legs away from the body; Movement of a limb away from middle of body, such as bringing arms to shoulder height from hanging down position; in conditional reasoning, the generation of an explanation for an event, taken from a theory of how the world works, the plausibility of which depends in large part on the number and the likelihood of the alternative explanations; (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body; Moving away from the body; The wrongful taking away of a person Commonly refers to a child being taken by a parent in breach of a Court Order •Children - Movement; A method of reasoning by which one infers to the best explanation See induction, deduction <Discussion> <References> Chris Eliasmith; movement of the bone away from the central line of the body; a movement away from the mid-line of the body; Moving a limb away from the body; The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away; (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family relationship and against the wife; The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress; {i} kidnapping, seizure, carrying off by force; action of separating a limb or other part from the midline of the body (Medicine); abducing, drawing apart
abduct: To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position
abduct: To take away secretly by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap
alien abduction: The claimed kidnapping,of a person by extraterrestrials
military abduction: A deceitful military operation performed to convince the targets of the operation that they have had an encounter with extraterrestrial beings which is actually a staged ploy
Whatever the answer might be, the idea of military involvement in abductions became a standard feature of the abduction scenario by the mid-1990s and, like the subject of implants, became a specialized focus for an on-going study by a small group of ufologists who formed Project MILAB.
Abduct: Motion to move extremity away from the body
Abduct: Physiology To draw away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part or limb
Abduct: Movement of any extremity away from the midline of the body An abductor muscle achieves this action
Abduct: (Ab*duct") v t [imp & p p Abducted ; p pr & vb n Abducting ] [L abductus, p p of abducere See Abduce ]
Abduct: Movement of any extremity away from the midline of the body This action is achieved by an abductor muscle
Abduct: to carry off by force
Abduct: take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"
Abduct: To move apart, separate
Abduct: pull away from the body; "this muscle abducts"
Abduct: — To move away from the body
Abduct: kidnape, anlve
abduct: If someone is abducted by another person, he or she is taken away illegally, usually using force. His car was held up and he was abducted by four gunmen She was charged with abducting a six-month-old child. = kidnap + abduction abductions ab·duc·tion the abduction of four youths. + abductor abductors ab·duc·tor She co-operated with her abductor. to take someone away by force = kidnap
abduct: To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap
abduct: pull away from the body; "this muscle abducts
abduct: {f} kidnap, carry off by force (especially of a person); pull away from the main axis of the body (Anatomy)
abductions: plural of abduction

abduction

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ab·duc·tion

Turkish pronunciation

äbdʌkşın

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kidnapping, retroduction, appropriation, rape, seizure, theft

Pronunciation

/abˈdəksʜən/ /æbˈdʌkʃən/

Etymology

() From Latin abductiō (“robbing; abduction”), from abdūcō (“take or lead away”). Compare French abduction.

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