abductive

abductive

English

Etymology

abduct +‎ -ive

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æbˈdʌk.tɪv/, /ˈæbˌdək.tɪv/

Adjective

abductive (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Related or pertaining to abductor muscles and their movement. [Mid 19^th century.][1]
2. (logic, computing) Characterizing a logical process as being one of abduction or inference. [Early 20^th century.][1]
3. (rare) Abducting, pertaining to an abduction (a kidnapping).
   • 2010, Steve Hendricks, A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial →ISBN, page 169:

     The logs showed that between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on the abductive day, 10,718 SIMs connected with the seven […] Some people in the kidnap zone would of course have called each other innocently, but […]

Antonyms

• deductive

Translations

logic

Greek: απαγωγικός (el) m (apagogikós) Italian: abduttivo (it)

Portuguese: abdutivo

anatomy

Finnish: abduktiivinen Italian: abduttore (it) Latin: abducens m

Lithuanian: atitraukiamasis m Romanian: abductor (ro) Russian: отводя́щий (ru) m (otvodjáščij)

See also

• abductive reasoning

References

1. “abductive” in Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2002, →ISBN, page 3.

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French

Adjective

abductive

1. feminine singular of abductif

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Latin

Adjective

abductīve

1. vocative masculine singular of abductīvus