English

Etymology
From Old French #Old French|movement (modern mouvement), from mediaeval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere �move�.

Pronunciation
IPA|/�mu:vm�nt/ italbrac|UK
audio|en-us-movement.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
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1. Physical motion between points in space.

#: I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.
#: I saw some movement in that grass on the hill.

1. italbrac|horology for a clockwork, a clock, or a watch, a device that cuts time in equal portions.
2. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
3. A trend in various fields or social categories.

#: The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.

1. music A large division of a larger composition.
2. aviation An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.

#: Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.

1. baseball The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight

#: The movement on his cutter was devastating.

1. An act of emptying the bowels.

Translations
trans-top|physical motion
Arabic: ARchar|حر�ة (ḥarakä)
Bulgarian: t+|bg|движение|n|trdviženie|scCyrl
Dutch: t+|nl|beweging
Greek: t|el|κίνη�η|f|sc=Grek (kínisi)
Hebrew: he-translation|נ��|need m
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Kurdish: KUchar|ج���ا������, KUchar|بز��ت������, KUchar|ح��ر��ک��ت
Portuguese: t+|pt|movimento
Romanian: t|ro|mi�care|f
Russian: t+|ru|движение|n|trdvižénije|scCyrl
Scots: muvement
Slovene: gibanje n, premikanje n, premik m
Spanish: t+|es|movimiento
Urdu: URchar|حرکت (<u>h</u>arkat) f
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trans-top|device that cuts time in equal portions
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trans-top|impression of motion
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trans-top|trend in various fields or social categories
Czech: t-|cs|hnutí|n
Greek: t|el|κίνημα|n|sc=Grek (kínima)
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Scots: muvement
Slovene: t|sl|gibanje|n
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trans-top|division of a larger musical composition
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Slovene: stavek m
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trans-top|an aircraft taking off or landing
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trans-top|deviation of a pitch
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trans-top|an act of emptying the bowels
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See also
art movement
British poetry
cultural movement
literary movement
new religious movement
social movement
speed
symphony
vector
velocity

External links
w:movement|Wikipedia disambiguation page on movement

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