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movement

English

🔊 the act of changing the location of something
“the movement of cargo onto the vessel”
🔊 the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
“it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement”
🔊 a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
“the second movement is slow and melodic”
🔊 a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
🔊 a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
“he was a charter member of the movement”
🔊 the act of changing location from one place to another
“police controlled the motion of the crowd”
🔊 a change of position that does not entail a change of location
“the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise”
🔊 a euphemism for defecation
“he had a bowel movement”
🔊 a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
“not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book”
🔊 an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
“the cinema relies on apparent motion”
🔊 a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
“he supported populist campaigns”