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Synonyms
movement

noun

  1. a change of position that does not entail a change of location: "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"
  2. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
  3. the act of changing location from one place to another: "police controlled the motion of the crowd"
  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"
  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"
  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"
  8. a euphemism for defecation: "he had a bowel movement"
  9. a general tendency to change (as of opinion): "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"
  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"