adduct
/əˈdʌkt/
verb
- To move a body part toward the midline of the body (e.g., bringing an arm down to the side).
- During the exercise, you should adduct your legs by squeezing your thighs together.
- When you adduct your fingers, you bring them close together.
- The physical therapist showed him how to adduct his shoulder slowly.
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noun
- A chemical compound formed by the direct addition of two or more different molecules.
- They identified a new adduct in the mixture using spectroscopy.
- This adduct is unstable and breaks down quickly at room temperature.
- The chemist studied the structure of the adduct formed in the reaction.