Noun
1. a change of position that does not entail a change of location;
"the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise""movement is a sign of life""an impatient move of his hand""gastrointestinal motility"2. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
3. the act of changing location from one place to another;
"police controlled the motion of the crowd""the movement of people from the farms to the cities""his move put him directly in my path"4. a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals;
"he was a charter member of the movement""politicians have to respect a mass movement""he led the national liberation front"5. a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata;
"the second movement is slow and melodic"6. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end;
"he supported populist campaigns""they worked in the cause of world peace""the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant""the movement to end slavery""contributed to the war effort"7. an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object;
"the cinema relies on apparent motion""the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement"8. a euphemism for defecation;
"he had a bowel movement"9. a general tendency to change (as of opinion);
"not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book""a broad movement of the electorate to the right"10. the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock);
"it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"11. the act of changing the location of something;
"the movement of cargo onto the vessel"