adduction

Borrowed from Latin adductio, adductionis, from adducō (“I bring to myself”), from ad + ducō (“I lead”). Compare French adduction. See adduce.

• IPA^(key): /əˈdʌk.ʃn̩/
• (anatomy sense): (for emphasis and disambiguation from abduction) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.ˈdiː.dʌk.ʃn̩/

adduction (countable and uncountable, plural adductions)

1. The act of adducing or bringing forward.
   • 1860, Isaac Taylor, “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC:

     an adduction of facts gathered from various quarters

3. (anatomy) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis; -- opposed to abduction.

• “adduction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin adductiōnem.

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adduction f (plural adductions)

1. adduction (all senses)

• “adduction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.