The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arrestment \Ar*rest"ment\, n. [OF. arrestement.]
(Scots Law) The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.
A stoppage or check.
--Darwin. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. The action of arresting (in any sense)
Usage examples of "arrestment".
As a pulvinus is formed by the arrestment of the growth of its cells, movements dependent on their action may be longcontinued without any increase in length of the part thus provided.
Secondly, if the light is only somewhat dimmed, by the acceleration and increase of the movement towards it, and by the retardation or arrestment of that from the light, some lateral movement being still retained, for the light will interfere less with a movement at right angles to its direction, than with one in its own direction.
Johnny set the size of this orifice for each arrestment as ordered by the talker in Pried-Fly.
When he first reported aboard Columbia, the arresting gear chief had impressed Johnny with a story about an anchor dampener that sheared its restraining nut during an arrestment.
As a result of this little story, Johnny Arbogast developed a habit of running his eyes over the anchor dampeners after each arrestment.