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Word: abduction
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Noun:
- computing The process of inference to the best explanation; abductive reasoning.
- education The process used in getting students to see disciplinary regularity through the use of metaphor.
- physiology The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
- Determining the best or most plausible of many possible explanations for a set of facts.
- legal The carrying off of a human being.
- logic A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.
- make this into proper citation The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. ? Roget
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