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movement

noun
/ˈmuːv.mənt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin movēre Old French movoir Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-məntom Latin -mentum Old French -ment Old French movementbor. Middle English mevement English movement From Middle English mevement, from Old French movement (modern French mouvement), from movoir + -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (“move”). Doublet of moment and momentum. In this sense, displaced native Old English styring, which led to Modern English stirring. Morphologically move + -ment.

  1. derived from movere
  2. derived from movimentum
  3. derived from movement
  4. inherited from mevement

Definitions

  1. Physical motion between points in space.

    • I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.

  2. A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for…

    A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.

  3. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology…

      A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.

      • social movement
      • The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.

    2. A large division of a larger composition.

      • Beethoven's movements

    3. Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.

    4. An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.

      • Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.

    5. The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.

      • The movement on his cutter was devastating.

    6. A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in…

      A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.

    7. Ellipsis of bowel movement (“an act of emptying the bowels”).

      • when after a movement feces are streaked with blood and the patient suffers from sphincter algia, a fissure should be suspected,

    8. Motion of the mind or feelings

      Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

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Derived

aftermovement, aircraft movement, A-movement, antimovement, art movement, A′-movement, beta movement, bowel movement, Brownian movement, camera movement, choreiform movement, civil rights movement, comovement, countermovement, criminal religious movement, cultural movement, ecomovement, ecumenical movement, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, freedom of movement, free school movement, head movement, holiness movement, holomovement, Howell movement, human movement, human potential movement, involuntary movement, Jesus movement, literary movement, march-movement, micromovement, midmovement, Mitchell movement, movement control order, movement disorder, multimovement, new religious movement, nonmovement, of its proper movement · +15 more

Vish — recursive loop

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

10 hops · closes at movement

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