locomotion

noun
/ləʊ.kəˈməʊ.ʃən/UK/ˌloʊ.kəˈmoʊ.ʃən/CA/ləʉ.kəˈməʉ.ʃən/

Etymology

From French locomotion, from Latin locō (literally “from a place”) (ablative of locus (“place”)) + mōtiōnem (“motion, a moving”) (nominative mōtio), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”).

  1. derived from *m(y)ewh₁- — “to move, drive
  2. derived from moveō — “move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit
  3. derived from locō
  4. derived from locomotion

Definitions

  1. The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.

  2. Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking,…

    Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming, brachiating or flying.

    • The assessment also looks at reflexes, stationary (body control), locomotion (movement), grasping and visual-motor integration (eyes and hands coordinated).
  3. A dance, originally popular in the 1960s, in which the arms are used to mimic the motion…

    A dance, originally popular in the 1960s, in which the arms are used to mimic the motion of the connecting rods of a steam locomotive.

    • Mr. Motian's own tunes, folk-simple locomotions of straight melody, fast or slow, with acres of room for interpretation, have accounted for some of the mistier sets.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at locomotion. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at locomotion. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at locomotion

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA