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Definition: Adduction |
AdductionNoun1. (physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Adduction \Ad*duc"tion\, noun. [Compare to the French expression adduction. See Adduce.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The rotation of an eye toward the midline (nasally). (references) |
Medicine | Move inwards towards central axis of the body. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Recession | Noun: attraction, attractiveness; attractivity; drawing to, pulling towards, adduction. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Adduction |
| Non-English Usage: "Adduction" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (adduction, intake). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Adduction" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adduction" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adduction | 9 |
adduction hip | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adduction"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | parashtrim (enunciation, exposition, presentation), paraqitje (demonstration, designation, display, face, figure, guise, introduction, likeness, make, manifestation, portrayal, preferment, presence, presentation, production, profile, recommendation, representation, showing, smartness, statement, submission). (various references) | |
Arabic | تقريب نحو المحور, إيرادليل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | адукция, притегляне (attraction, gravitation, gravity, pull), привеждане, изтъкване (accentuation, assertion, representation), даване (accordance, grant, rendering). (various references) | |
Danish | adduktion, indadrotation, indadføring. (various references) | |
Dutch | adductio, adductie, aanvoering (quotation). (various references) | |
French | adduction. (various references) | |
German | Adduktion. (various references) | |
Greek | προσαγωγή (adducting, presentation, production). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tekintélyre hivatkozás. (various references) | |
Italian | adduzione. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adductionay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | adução. (various references) | |
Romanian | aducţie (supply), prezentare (description, development, exhibit, exhibition, introduction, present, presentation, presentment), citare (citation, quotation). (various references) | |
Russian | приведение. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | adukcija. (various references) | |
Spanish | aducción. (various references) | |
Swedish | anförande (citation, command, lead, quotation, speech, statement). (various references) | |
Turkish | addüksiyon, yaklaştırma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | наведення (steering), аддукція. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thí dụ (adduceable, adducible, example, instance). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "adduction": adductions. (additional references) | |
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"Adduction" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adbuction, eduction. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "adduction" (pronounced 'Ad*duc"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-i-n-o-t-u" | |
-2 letters: auction, caution, conduit, noctuid. | |
-3 letters: action, addict, adduct, anodic, atonic, candid, cation, dacoit, didact, induct, outadd, outdid, toucan, tunica. | |
-4 letters: actin, adunc, antic, audio, audit, canid, canto, coati, cotan, count, cutin, danio, daunt, dicot, dicta, donut, ducat, nicad, octad, octan, ontic, tondi, tonic, tunic, uncia, undid. | |
-5 letters: acid, adit, anti, aunt, auto, cadi, caid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-i-n-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: adductions. | |
+3 letters: adjudication, outdistanced. | |
+4 letters: adjudications, counterraided, uncoordinated, undissociated. | |
+5 letters: unconsolidated, uncontradicted, undomesticated. | |
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