movement
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈmuːv.mənt/
movement
- Physical motion between points in space.
- Synonyms: motion
- Antonyms: stasis
- I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.
- (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
- The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
- A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
- The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.
(music) A large division of a larger composition. - (music) Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.
- (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
- Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.
- (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
- The movement on his cutter was 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.
- (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
- French: mouvement
- German: Bewegung
- Italian: movimento
- Portuguese: movimento
- Russian: движе́ние
- Spanish: movimiento
- French: mouvement
- German: Bewegung
- Portuguese: movimento
- Russian: движе́ние
- Spanish: movimiento
- French: mouvement
- German: Satz
- Italian: movimento
- Portuguese: andamento, movimento
- Russian: часть
- Spanish: movimiento
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