Movement meaning

noun

1. a change of position that does not entail a change of location

   “the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise”

   “movement is a sign of life”

   Synonymsmotionmovemotility

2. the act of changing location from one place to another

   “police controlled the motion of the crowd”

   “the movement of people from the farms to the cities”

   Synonymsmotionmove

3. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

   Synonymsmotion

4. a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

   “he was a charter member of the movement”

   “politicians have to respect a mass movement”

   Synonymssocial movementfront

5. a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata

   “the second movement is slow and melodic”

6. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

   “he supported populist campaigns”

   “they worked in the cause of world peace”

   Synonymscampaigncausecrusadedriveeffort

7. an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object

   “the cinema relies on apparent motion”

   “the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement”

   Synonymsapparent motionmotionapparent movement

8. a euphemism for defecation

   “he had a bowel movement”

   Synonymsbowel movementbm

9. a general tendency to change (as of opinion)

   “not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book”

   “a broad movement of the electorate to the right”

   Synonymsdrifttrend

10. the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)

    “it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement”

11. the act of changing the location of something

    “the movement of cargo onto the vessel”