remotion

Etymology

From Old French or directly from Latin remōtiō.

noun

1. (zoology, chiefly entomology) Backward motion.
   Coordinate term: promotion
   By simple promotion and remotion, assisted by some flexure and extension, the distal spines of each would reach and scratch the substratum and, on remotion, sweep coarse particles posteriorly and dorsally. 1995, Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology, page 63
   In other arthropods, promotion-remotion of the leg is accomplished at other joints. For example, in spiders promotion-remotion occurs at the coxa-trochanter joint, insects utilize the body-coxa joint, and […] 2008, John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology, volume 4, page 3326
2. (especially logic, largely obsolete) Removal.
   A syllogism disjunctive from the enumeration of the parts is that, in which from the remotion of all the parts the remotion of the whole is concluded. 1847, Murray's Compendium of logic, with a corrected Latin text, page 155
   We may proceed from the remotion of the consequent to the remotion of the antecedent. 1857, John Daniel Morell, Handbook of logic, page 51
   The remotion of Cr3+ from the wastewater prevents its possible oxidation. 2003, 2001. a Clay Odyssey, page 619