\E*vec"tion\ [L. evectio a going up, fr. evehere to
carry out; e out + vehere to carry: cf. F ['e]vection.]
1. The act of carrying up or away; exaltation. [Obs.] --Bp.
   Pearson.
2. (Astron.)
   (a) An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the
       attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the
       center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at
       the quadratures by about 1[deg] 20'.
   (b) The libration of the moon. --Whewell.