Abduction

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Abduction (esp. from an abductor upon an abductee) may refer to:

[edit] Abduction of a person or people

• Kidnapping, as a near synonym in criminal law, but sometimes used particularly in cases involving a woman or child
  • Bride kidnapping
  • Child abduction, the abduction or kidnapping of a young child (or baby) by an older person
  • Raptio
  • North Korean abductions of Japanese or North Korean abductions of South Koreans, a policy of abduction during the 1970s and 1980s pursued by the North Korean government.
  • alien abduction (abduction phenomenon in UFOlogy), an umbrella term used to describe a number of hypotheses, claims or assertions stating that extraterrestrial creatures kidnap individuals.

[edit] Sciences

• Abduction (kinesiology), a type of movement which draws a limb away from the median plane of the body
• Abductive reasoning, a method of reasoning in logic

[edit] Cultural References

• Abducted (album), an album by death metal band Hypocrisy
• Abduction (novel), a 2000 novel by novelist Robin Cook
• Abduction (novel), a 2002 short story by Shelagh Delaney
• Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story, a 2005 American documentary film
• Alien Abduction (film), a 2005 science-fiction film by The Asylum
• Abduction (The Outer Limits)

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