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English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromMiddle Englishmevement,fromOld Frenchmovement(modernFrenchmouvement), frommovoir+-ment;cf. alsoMedieval Latinmovimentum,fromLatinmovere(“move”).Doubletofmomentandmomentum.In this sense, displaced nativeOld Englishstyring,which led toModern Englishstirring.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]movement(countableanduncountable,pluralmovements)
- Physicalmotionbetween points in space.
- (engineering)Asystemormechanismfor transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as thewheelworkof awatch.
- Theimpressionof motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
- Atrendin various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
- socialmovement
- The labormovementhas been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.
- 2021,Richard C. Bush,Difficult Choices: Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life[1],Washington, D.C.:Brookings Institution Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page274:
- During the latter part of Taiwan's authoritarian period, social protestmovementsarose that complemented the periodic efforts of the political opposition- thedangwai-to open the political system. One of the most prominentmovementsoccurred in the town of Lukang in Changhua County in 1986.
- (music)A large division of a largercomposition.
- Beethoven'smovements
- (music)Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.
- (aviation)An instance of anaircrafttaking off or landing.
- Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000movementslast year.
- (baseball)Thedeviationof apitchfromballisticflight.
- Themovementon hiscutterwas devastating.
- (bridge)A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.
- An act of emptying the bowels.
- 1923,Samuel Goodwin Gant,Diseases of the Rectum, Anus, and Colon, Including the Ileocolic Angle,page47:
- when after amovementfeces are streaked with blood and the patient suffers from sphincter algia, a fissure should be suspected,
- (obsolete)Motion of the mind or feelings;emotion.
Derived terms
[edit]- aftermovement
- aircraft movement
- A-movement
- antimovement
- art 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
- Jesus movement
- literary movement
- march-movement
- micromovement
- midmovement
- Mitchell movement
- movement control order
- movement disorder
- multimovement
- new religious movement
- nonmovement
- of its proper movement
- Oxford movement
- perimovement
- photomovement
- pincer movement
- postmovement
- premovement
- Protestant Movement
- rapid eye movement
- social movement
- submovement
- temperance movement
- wh-movement
- youth movement
Translations
[edit]physical motion
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horology: device that cuts time in equal portions
trend in various fields or social categories
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music: division of a larger musical composition
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aviation: aircraft taking off or landing
baseball: deviation of a pitch
an act of emptying the bowels
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See also
[edit]Middle French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromOld Frenchmovement.
Noun
[edit]movementm(pluralmovemens)
Descendants
[edit]- French:mouvement
Occitan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromOld Occitan;equivalent tomover+-ment.Cf. also Medieval Latinmovimentum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]movementm(pluralmovements)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Joan de Cantalausa (2006)Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians[2],2 edition,→ISBN,page664.
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]movoir+-ment;cf. also Medieval Latinmōvimentum(itself probably partly based on the Old French or other early Romance cognates), fromLatinmoveō.
Noun
[edit]movementoblique singular,m(oblique pluralmovemenzormovementz,nominative singularmovemenzormovementz,nominative pluralmovement)
Descendants
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