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Abduction
- noun - (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
Abjection
- noun - a low or downcast state; "each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement"- H.L.Menchken
Abolition
- noun - Cancellation, edification
- the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery); "the abolition of capital punishment"
Abruption
- noun - an instance of sudden interruption
Absinthin
- - The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium).
Acception
- - Acceptation; the received meaning.
Accretion
- noun - (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
- (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
- (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
- (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- Any gradual increase in size as through growth or external addition.
- something contributing to growth or increase; "he scraped away the accretions of paint"; "the central city surrounded by recent accretions"
Actuation
- noun - the act of propelling
Acylation
- noun - the process of introducing an acyl group into a compound