abduction

noun5

1. •
   The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
2. •
   An alien abduction.

   • But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist. — 2010
3. •
   The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

   • Abduction is performed by asking the patient to raise the arm at the side as high as they can with the examiner stabilizing the scapula by holding it down. — 2013
4. •
   A leading away; a carrying away.
5. •
   A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.

   • The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction, and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning. — 2005