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sectoranopia (medicine) and promotion (iou)


sectoranopia (medicine)


sectoranopia


Loss of vision in a sector of the visual field.

Origin: sector + G. An-priv. + opsis, vision


promotion (iou)



Promotion noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin promotio(n-), formed as PROMOTE: see -ION.]
I.
gen. The action of promoting someone or something; the fact of being promoted; an instance of this. LME.
Irishman's Promotion: see IRISHMAN 1.
G. Crabbe Promotion's ladder, who goes up or down. Nature The Promotion of high standards in scientific and technical information work. T. Allbeury The official notification of his Promotion to major. Pulse Increasing the number of Health Promotion clinics.
The publicization of a product; the advertisement of the merits of a commodity etc.; an instance of this. E20.
Bookseller Applicants should have several years' experience in books Promotion.
An Entertainment or sporting event (esp. a boxing-match) staged for profit. M20.
II.
a. Chemistry. The action of promoting a catalyst or a catalytic reaction. E20.
b. Medicine. The furtherance of neoplastic growth following its initiation by a carcinogen; the conversion of latent tumour cells into active malignant ones. M20.
a. Phonetics. (An instance of) the intensification of normal stress levels in verse. M20.
b. Linguistics. In Transformational grammar, the translation of material from an embedded to a main sentence. Now rare. M20.
promotional adjective E20.