Movement - Definition

n 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" [syn: motion,
movement, move, motility]
2: 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" [syn: motion, movement, move]
3: a natural event that involves a change in the position or
location of something [syn: movement, motion]
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" [syn: movement,
social movement, 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" [syn: campaign, cause,
crusade, drive, movement, 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" [syn: apparent motion,
motion, apparent movement, movement]
8: a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement" [syn:
bowel movement, movement, bm]
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" [syn: drift, trend,
movement]
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"