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Pronunciation
Noun
movements- Plural of movement
Extensive Definition
A movement is a motion,
a change in position. Movement can also refer to:
In transportation
- Locomotion, active movement or travel
- Transport, the movement of people, goods, signals and information
In biology
seealso animal locomotion- Defecation, sometimes called a bowel movement
- Nastic movements, rapid, reversible responses to non-directional stimuli
In art
- Movement (music), a large division of a larger composition or musical form
- Movement (album), New Order's debut album, released in 1981
- The Movement (album), by Inspectah Deck
- The Movement (group),a techno act from Los Angeles California
- Movements (sacred dances), collected or authored by G. I. Gurdjieff
- The Movement (literature), writers including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, et. al
In social studies
- Art movement, a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal
- Cultural movement, change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work
- New religious movement, a religious, ethical, or spiritual grouping of fairly recent origin
- Social movement, a type of group action
In politics
- Political movement, a social roda jc working in the area of politics
- National Resistance Movement, a political organization in kis om roda
- Democratic Labor Party, an Australian political party also known as 'The Movement'
Other
- Movement (clockwork), all the main parts of a watch
- Wh-movement, a syntactic phenomenon
See also
- Motion (disambiguation page)
- Move
- Offset
- Travel
- Displacement
- Translation (geometry)
movements in Czech: Pohyb
movements in German: Bewegung
movements in French: Mouvement
movements in Korean: 운동
movements in Hebrew: תנועה
movements in Japanese: 運動
movements in Russian: Движение
movements in Slovak: Pohyb
movements in Slovenian: Gibanje
(razločitev)
movements in Swedish: Rörelse
movements in Chinese: 运动 (消歧义)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
act,
acting, action, actions, activism, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern,
behavioral norm, behavioral science, carriage, clockworks, comportment, conduct, culture pattern,
custom, demeanor, deportment, doing, doings, drive train, employment, exercise, folkway, function, functioning, gear, gestures, goings-on, guise, innards, machinery, maintien, manner, manners, mechanism, method, methodology, methods, mien, modus vivendi, motion, motions, movement, moves, observable behavior,
occupation, operation, operations, pattern, play, poise, port, pose, posture, power train, practice, praxis, presence, procedure, proceeding, servomechanism, social
science, style, swing, tactics, tone, watchworks, way, way of life, ways, wheels, wheels within wheels,
work, working, workings, works