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单词 deduction
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deductionn.

/dɪˈdʌkʃən/
Forms: Also Middle English deduxion, Middle English–1500s deduccion, 1500s deduccoun.
Etymology: In some senses < French déduction (Oresme 14th cent.), but in most < Latin dēductiōn-em , noun of action < Latin dēdūcĕre : see deduct adj., deduce v.
The action of deducting.
1.
a. The action of deducting or taking away from a sum or amount; subtraction, abatement.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > deduction > [noun]
defalking1475
deduction1496
defeasance1516
detraction1528
subtraction1534
subduction1555
abating1557
ademption1590
subtracting1611
defalcation1624
retractiona1636
abate1646
deducing1651
dockage1886
1496–7 Act 12 Hen. VII c. 12 §4 Any deduccion or abatement befortyme allowed.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxixv/2 The sayde Ri. shalbe chargeable for the hoole somme..wythot ony deduxion.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 217 He dyed in the day of his nativity, and without deduction justly accomplished the year of eighty one. View more context for this quotation
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. viii. 80 His rent..makes the first deduction from the produce of the labour which is employed upon land. View more context for this quotation
1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 55 The interest given to them was exclusive of, and with a deduction of, that sum.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. vii. 33 Charges of this kind must always be taken with certain deductions.
b. That which is deducted or subtracted.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > deduction > [noun] > that which is deducted
deduction1546
discount1622
defease1630
bate1800
subtractive1817
minus1876
offtake1892
1546 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 197 Wyth the yerely Resolutes and deduccions goyng out of the same.
1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Xi For subtraction your nombers are sette downe after the common maner, firste the totall, and then the deduction.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 55 In taking out the Deductions for the Doors and Windows.
2.
a. A leading forth or away (spec. of a colony); conduct. Now rare or Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > colonizing > [noun] > leading forth a colony
deducting1582
deduction?1615
society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > guiding, leading, or showing the way
lodec1175
leadinga1300
forleadinga1387
teachinga1400
guidingc1425
conveying1483
conducting1517
conduction1541
conduct?c1550
well guiding1577
pilotage1600
deduction?1615
piloting1663
guidership1849
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) vi. 455 Take such way, That you yourself may compass..Your quick deduction by my father's grace.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. x. 228 Deductions of Colonies, and new Plantations.
1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 31 574 The solemn deduction (to use the technical term) of a legitimate Roman colony.
b. figurative. A leading up to something, introduction. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > a) preparation(s) > a preliminary action or step
introductionc1386
deductiona1535
induction?1544
preamble1548
flourish1552
preludium1563
primordium1577
preparativec1580
exordium1581
introit1583
foregoinga1586
prologuea1586
preface1589
prelusion1597
proem1598
prolusion1601
introductory1646
preliminary1656
prelimination1667
flourishing1687
little go1842
preluding1858
foreword1888
prelim1891
prelimen1898
run-in1900
opening gambit1911
prolegomenon1926
lead-in1928
pipe-openera1936
lead-up1953
intro1964
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 61/1 He sodainly lefte the matter, with which he was in hand, and without ani deduccion therunto..began to repete those wordes again.
3. The action or result of tracing out or setting forth in order; a detailed narration or account. Obsolete. (Cf. deduce v. 4, deduct v. 5.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account
talec1200
historyc1230
sawc1320
tellinga1325
treatisec1374
chroniclec1380
process?1387
legendc1390
prosec1390
pistlec1395
treatc1400
relationc1425
rehearsal?a1439
report?a1439
narrationc1449
recorda1450
count1477
redec1480
story1489
recount1490
deductiona1532
repetition1533
narrative1539
discourse1546
account1561
recital1561
enarrative1575
legendary1577
enarration1592
recite1594
repeat1609
texture1611
recitation1614
rendera1616
prospect1625
recitement1646
tell1743
diegesis1829
récit1915
narrative line1953
a1532 Remedie of Love (R.) Ordinately behoveth thee first to procede In deduction thereof [this werke].
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. ix. 17 A long counterfet deduction of this storie.
1670 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 222 A solemn deduction and true state of all affairs and particulars.
1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 23 Aug. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1198 It..gives a clear deduction of the affairs of Europe, from the Treaty of Munster to this time.
1826 C. Butler Life Grotius 34 We have thus brought down our historical deduction of the German Empire to the accession of the Emperor Charles.
4. Music. The succession of notes forming a hexachord n.: the singing of these in order. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > hexachord > hexachord series
deduction1597
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 7 Now for the last tryall of your singing in continuall deduction sing this perfectly.
1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 26 There are..three Deductions of this kinde.
1876 in J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms
5.
a. The process of deducing or deriving from some source; derivation. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > origination or derivation > action of deriving from a source
derivement1593
deriving1607
derivage1610
deduction1612
derivation1660
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion ix. Illustr. 145 Affirming that Our Britons from them..had deduction of this nationall title.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. ii. 12 The deduction of the Greek Leters from the Hebrew.
1755 S. Johnson Gram. Eng. Tongue in Dict. Etymology teaches the deduction of one word from another.
b. concrete. That which is derived. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > that which originates from something else
daughtereOE
outcasting1340
impc1380
childa1398
outgrowing?a1425
proventc1451
provenuec1487
excrescency1545
sprig1575
procedure?1577
proceed1578
derivative1593
offspring1596
superfetation1603
excression1610
shootc1610
excretion1615
slip1627
excrescence1633
derivation1641
derivate1660
offshoot1801
offtracta1806
deduction1835
outgrowth1837
1835 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Archit. Eng. (1848) App. 30 There may be some doubt, whether the modern Ionic capital is not rather a deduction from the Composite than the contrary.
6.
a. The process of deducing or drawing a conclusion from a principle already known or assumed; spec. in Logic, inference by reasoning from generals to particulars; opposed to induction n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > process of inferring, inference > [noun]
reasoning?c1400
collection1529
conclusion1532
induction1551
inferring1571
remotion1587
syllogism1588
deduction1593
inference1593
inferment1593
extraction1622
eduction1654
perduction1656
reducementa1750
deducing1826
vertical thinking1966
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. xiv. 87 And shewe the deduction thereof out of scripture to be necessarie.
1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. iii. §26. 52 The deduction of these Lawes is so hard, that [etc.].
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. vi. 222 A Matter of Deduction and Inference.
1789 W. Belsham Ess. I. i. 4 It follows by easy and irrefragable deduction.
1860 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought (ed. 5) §113 Deduction the process of deriving facts from laws, and effects from their causes.
a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. v. 291 By deduction we descend from the abstract to the concrete.
b. transferred. That which is deduced; an inference, conclusion.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun] > conclusion
culorum1362
conclusionc1385
conjecturec1386
issuea1393
deduction1532
overplus1536
gatheringa1555
deducement1605
summation1608
therefore1641
offcome1655
deductivea1676
empiricism1724
wrap-up1960
inference1972
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 461/2 Yet if he would..neither vse false deduccions of hys owne, nor refuse our deduccions yf we deduce them wel.
1671 J. Webster Metallographia i. 9 From all this we shall only draw these Deductions.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. ii. 35 It is not so much a Deduction of Reason, as a Matter of Experience.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxii. 21 The whole evidence..bears out the general deductions which I have made.
7. Reduction. Obsolete. rare. (Cf. deduct v. 7.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > change into
reduction1605
deduction1650
resolution1659
conversion1661
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 172 The Deduction and Moderation of their Excrescencie.

Compounds

deduction theorem n. Logic the rule or metatheorem that if within a system a formula B is derivable from a formula A, then ‘If A then B’ is a theorem of the system; the principle of conditionalization.
ΚΠ
1941 O. Helmer tr. A. Tarski Introd. Logic vi. 127 A general law..which..is known as the law of deduction (or the deduction theorem).
1951 Mind 60 382 The Deduction Theorem holds for the calculus of causal propositions.
1962 W. Kneale & M. Kneale Devel. Logic v. 320 The principle of conditionalization (or ‘deduction theorem’)..was taken for granted by Aristotle.
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