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importation|ɪmpɔːˈteɪʃən|
[n. of action f. import v. (Hence in F.)]
1. The action of importing or bringing in.
a. Commerce. The bringing in of goods or merchandise from a foreign country: opp. to exportation.
1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 79 Greate rivers, by which they may have cheap..importation or exportation of wares. 1776Adam Smith W.N. iv. i. (1869) II. 23 Restraints upon the importation of such foreign goods for home consumption as could be produced at home. 1833H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. i. 3 To authorize a restricted importation of foreign silks.
fig.1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 66 [Licensing] hinders and retards the importation of our richest Marchandize, Truth.
attrib.1808J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 604 If I could lay an embargo, or pass a new importation law against corruption and foreign influence.
b. gen. Bringing in, introduction.
1666J. Smith Old Age 239 The Instruments..which serve for importation, and reception of the bloud and spirits. 1807Med. Jrnl. XVII. 112 For more than fifty years..no importation of the disease into this city was suspected. 1874Parker Gothic Archit. i. iv. 141 The usual test of the importation of a new style.
2. concr. That which is imported or introduced; † imports collectively (obs.); an imported article, an import.
1664–5Pepys Diary 27 Jan., If the exportations exceed the importations. 1727Pope Thoughts Var. Subj. in Swift's Wks. (1755) II. i. 230 Solomon's importation, Gold and apes. 1893Westm. Gaz. 27 Mar. 7/2 Their eleven is entirely representative, and possesses no Scotch or Welsh importations. Mod. She is a recent importation, I fancy.
3. Logic. The inference that if a proposition implies that a second proposition implies a third, then the first and second together imply the third; the converse of exportation 4.
1903B. Russell Princ. Math. ii. 16 If p implies that q implies r, then pq implies r. This is the principle of importation. 1918C. I. Lewis Survey Symbolic Logic iv. 231 This theorem contains Peano's..Principle of Importation. 1957P. Suppes Introd. Logic ii. 34 Law of Importation [P→(Q→R)]→[P & Q→R]. 1965Hughes & Londey Elem. Formal Logic xv. 113 T 20 is known as the Law of Importation.., since its effect is to ‘import’ the antecedent of the consequent into the antecedent of the whole wff.
Hence imporˈtational a., of or relating to importation.
1935Mind XLIV. 154 Importational logograms (analogous to definitions) are introduced by fiat. |