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The act of stopping or slowing something (especially a process). / (dated) The act of catching someone's attention. / (dated) The act of arresting someone (taking them into legal custody).

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arrestation

Noun

countable uncountable dated

The act of stopping or slowing something (especially a process). / (dated) The act of catching someone's attention. / (dated) The act of arresting someone (taking them into legal custody).

Japanese Meaning

何か（特にプロセス）の進行を停止または遅延させる行為 / （時代遅れ）誰かの注意を引く行為 / （時代遅れ）誰かを逮捕する行為（法的拘留に入れる行為）

What is this buttons?

The engineer noted that the arrestation of the chemical reaction prevented the temperature from rising further.

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エンジニアは化学反応の停止が温度のさらなる上昇を防いだと指摘した。

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Sense（1）

The act of stopping or slowing something (especially a process).

[…] he had continued [the treatment] to the day on which I saw him […] with relief of pain and improvement of his general feelings, but without any arrestation of his decline in strength and weight;

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Sense（2）

(dated) The act of catching someone's attention.

Different hypnotists use different methods of inducing this condition, but the main factor in all of them is the fixation and arrestation of the attention and the use of suggestion.

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