/ˈmuːv.mənt/► audioScrabble 15Words With Friends 19
Definition
noun a change of position that does not entail a change of location.
— synonyms: motion, move, motility
noun the act of changing location from one place to another.
— synonyms: motion, move
noun a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something.
— synonyms: motion
noun a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
— synonyms: social_movement, front
noun a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata.
noun a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end.
— synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort
noun an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object.
— synonyms: apparent_motion, motion, apparent_movement
noun a euphemism for defecation.
— synonyms: bowel_movement, bm
noun a general tendency to change (as of opinion).
— synonyms: drift, trend
noun the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock).
noun the act of changing the location of something.
Examples
“I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.”
“The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.”
“Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.”