Locomotion Definition

lōkə-mōshən
noun
Motion, or the power of moving, from one place to another.
Webster's New World
The ability to move from place to place.
American Heritage

(biology) Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming or flying.

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Noun

Singular:
locomotion
Plural:
locomotions

Origin of Locomotion

  • Latin locō from a place ablative of locus place motion

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Locomotion Sentence Examples

  • Locomotion is effected by means of the legs, with the body fully extended.

  • The foot is usually the pnly organ of locomotion.

  • Enormous engineering difficulties had to be overcome, originating not so much from the nature of the ground as from intense public prejudice against the new mode of locomotion.

  • As in the Rotifera, it serves the veliger larva as an organ of locomotion.

  • Beginning with a chapter on the means of locomotion in the 10th century, it went on to discuss war, the conflict of languages, faith, morals, the elimination of the unfit, and other general topics, with remarkable acuteness and constructive ability.

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Words Starting With

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NONION

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Words Starting With L and Ending With N

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