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evection

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Noun
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CIDE DICTIONARY

evection,  [L. evectio a going up, fr. evehere to carry out; e out + vehere to carry: cf. F évection.].
  •  The act of carrying up or away; exaltation.  Bp. Pearson.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An inequality of the moon's motion in its orbit, due to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1Whewell.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

evection, n. Astron. a perturbation of the moon's motion caused by the sun's attraction.

Etymology
L evectio (as E-, vehere vect- carry)

ROGET THESAURUS

evection

Derangement

N derangement, disorder, evection, discomposure, disturbance, disorganization, deorganization, dislocation, perturbation, interruption, shuffling, inversion, corrugation, involvement, interchange, deranged, syncretic, syncretistic, mussy, messy, flaky, random, unordered.

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