motion
The definition of a motion is a movement or a proposal for action.
(noun)- An example of motion is a waving hand.
- An example of motion is a request by a committee member that a recommendation be accepted.
Motion is defined as to signal with a movement.
(verb)An example of motion is to wave at someone to invite them over to your table.
See motion in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- the act or process of moving; passage of a body from one place to another; movement
- the act of moving the body or any of its parts
- a meaningful movement of the hand, eyes, etc.; gesture
- Rare the ability to move
- an impulse; inclination: of one's own motion
- a proposal; suggestion; esp. a proposal formally made in an assembly or meeting
- Law an application to a court for a ruling, order, etc.
- Mech. a combination of moving parts; mechanism
- Music melodic progression, as a change from one pitch to another in a voice part
Origin: ME mocioun < L motio (gen. motionis), a moving < motus, pp. of movere, move
intransitive verb
transitive verb
Related Forms:
- motional adjective
- motionless adjective
- motionlessly adverb
- motionlessness noun
See motion in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- The act or process of changing position or place.
- A meaningful or expressive change in the position of the body or a part of the body; a gesture.
- Active operation: set the plan in motion.
- The ability or power to move: lost motion in his arm.
- The manner in which the body moves, as in walking.
- A prompting from within; an impulse or inclination: resigned of her own motion.
- Music Melodic ascent and descent of pitch.
- Law An application made to a court for an order or a ruling.
- A formal proposal put to the vote under parliamentary procedures.
- a. A mechanical device or piece of machinery that moves or causes motion; a mechanism.b. The movement or action of such a device.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English mocioun
Origin: , from Old French motion
Origin: , from Latin mōtiō, mōtiōn-
Origin: , from mōtus
Origin: , past participle of movēre, to move; see meuə- in Indo-European roots
.See motion in Ologies
Motion
See also travel.
the tendency of some plants to grow in a direction away from the sun.
the tendency of some plants to grow away from the earth and the pull of gravity. —apogeotropic, adj.
slowness of movement. —bradykinetic, adj.
the property of some plants and animals of moving toward or away from certain chemicals.
growth or motion in response to a chemical stimulus. —chemotropic, adj.
the capacity or tendency of some plants to adopt a position transverse to the line of force of an external stimulus. — diatropic, adj.
dromophobia
kinetophobia.
galvanotropism
growth or movement of an organism in response to an electric current. —galvanotropic, adj.
the movement of an organism in response to the force of gravity.
the study of the motion of bodies considered independently of external forces. Also called phoronomy. —kinematic, adj.
kinesomania
a mania for movement.
the branch of physics that studies the motion of masses in relation to the forces acting on them.
kinetophobia
an abnormal fear or dislike of motion. Also called dromophobia.
phoronomy
kinematics.
movement of bodies, organisms, etc., in response to the stimulus of light. —photokinetic, adj.
the movement of an organism away from or toward a source of light. —phototactic, adj.
motion in a particular direction under the stimulus of light, as exhibited by certain plants, organisms, etc. —phototropic, adj.
the tendency of certain living things to move in response to the mechanical stimulus of a current of water.
orientation or movement of an organism in response to the stimulus of a solid object. Cf. stereotropism. —stereotactic, adj.
growth or movement determined by contact with a solid. Also called thigmotropism. Cf. stereotaxis. —stereotropic, adj.
tachophobia
an abnormal fear of speed.
stereotropism. —thigmotropic, adj.
trochilics
Rare. the science of rotary motion. —trochilic, adj.
the movement of cells in relation to food or nutritive matter. —trophotropic, adj.
the tendency of a plant, animal, or part to move or turn in response to an external stimulus, as sunlight or temperature. —tropistic, adj.
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