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movement
- 1) noun, a) the act, process, or result of moving b) an instance of moving
- 2) noun, the manner of moving
- 3) noun, a) a group of people with a common ideology, esp a political or religious one b) the organized action of such a group
- 4) noun, a trend or tendency in a particular sphere
- 5) noun, the driving and regulating mechanism of a watch or clock
- 6) noun, a person's location and activities during a specific time
- 7) noun, a) the evacuation of the bowels b) the matter evacuated
- 8) noun, music a principal self-contained section of a symphony, sonata, etc, usually having its own structure
- 9) noun, tempo or pace, as in music or literature
- 10) noun, fine arts the appearance of motion in painting, sculpture, etc
- 11) noun, prosody the rhythmic structure of verse
- 12) noun, a positional change by one or a number of military units
- 13) noun, a change in the market price of a security or commodity
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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