motion movement move | 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, his move put him directly in my path |
movement | the act of changing the location of something, the movement of cargo onto the vessel |
progress progression procession advance advancement forward motion onward motion | the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) |
troop movement | movement of military units to a new location |
motion movement move motility | 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, an impatient move of his hand, gastrointestinal motility |
fetal movement foetal movement | motion of a fetus within the uterus (usually detected by the th week of pregnancy) |
eye movement | the movement of the eyes |
rotation rotary motion | the act of rotating as if on an axis, the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music |
time and motion study time-and-motion study time-motion study motion study time study work study | an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort |
campaign cause crusade drive movement effort | 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, the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant, the movement to end slavery, contributed to the war effort |
anti-war movement | a campaign against entering or continuing a war |
feminist movement feminism women's liberation movement women's lib | the movement aimed at equal rights for women |
gay liberation movement gay lib | the movement aimed at liberating homosexuals from legal or social or economic oppression |
youth movement youth crusade | political or religious or social reform movement or agitation consisting chiefly of young people |
filming cinematography motion-picture photography | the act of making a film |
motion-picture camera movie camera cineamera | a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession |
motion-picture film movie film cine-film | photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, to be used in a movie camera |
movement | the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock), it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement |
perpetual motion machine | a machine that can continue to do work indefinitely without drawing energy from some external source, impossible under the law of conservation of energy |
kinesthesis kinaesthesis kinesthesia kinaesthesia kinesthetics muscle sense sense of movement | the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body |
kinesthesia kinaesthesia feeling of movement | the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc |
Kepler's law Kepler's law of planetary motion | (astronomy) one of three empirical laws of planetary motion stated by Johannes Kepler |
Newton's law of motion Newton's law law of motion | one of three basic laws of classical mechanics |
first law of motion Newton's first law of motion Newton's first law | a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless acted upon by an external force |
second law of motion Newton's second law of motion Newton's second law | the rate of change of momentum is proportional to the imposed force and goes in the direction of the force |
third law of motion Newton's third law of motion Newton's third law law of action and reaction | action and reaction are equal and opposite |
Romanticism Romantic Movement | a movement in literature and art during the late th and early th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization, Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality |
drift trend movement | 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 |
Salafism Salafi movement | a militant group of extremist Sunnis who believe themselves the only correct interpreters of the Koran and consider moderate Muslims to be infidels, seek to convert all Muslims and to insure that its own fundamentalist version of Islam will dominate the world |
a movie film picture moving picture moving-picture show motion picture motion-picture show picture show pic flick | a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement, they went to a movie every Saturday night, the film was shot on location |
slow motion | a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed, achieved by taking the film at a faster rate |
gesture motion | the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals |
movement | a major selfontained part of a symphony or sonata, the second movement is slow and melodic |
motion question | a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote, he made a motion to adjourn, she called for the question |
movement motion | a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something |
crustal movement tectonic movement | movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust |
periodic motion periodic movement | motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same |
harmonic motion | a periodic motion in which the displacement is either symmetrical about a point or is the sum of such motions |
simple harmonic motion | periodic motion in which the restoring force is proportional to the displacement |
axial rotation axial motion roll | rotary motion of an object around its own axis, wheels in axial rotation |
orbital rotation orbital motion | motion of an object in an orbit around a fixed point, satellites in orbital rotation |
Black September Movement | a former Palestinian terrorist organization (now merged with Fatah Revolutionary Council) that assassinated the Prime Minister of Jordan and during the Olympic Games in Munich killed Israeli athletes |
East Turkistan Islamic Movement East Turkestan Islamic Movement | a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang, declared by China in to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression |
Hamas Islamic Resistance Movement | a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon, seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel, is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel, pioneered suicide bombing |
Harkat-ul-Mujahidin HUM Harkat ul-Ansar HUA Harkat ul-Mujahedeen Al Faran Movement of Holy Warriors | an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the s, now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan |
Lautaro Youth Movement Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces | a violent terrorist group organized in the s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government, leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam LTTE Tamil Tigers Tigers World Tamil Association World Tamil Movement | a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began inas a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students, currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam, relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel, the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war |
Tareekh e Kasas Movement for Revenge | an organization of Muslims in India who killed Hindus in September , believed to have ties with Muslim terrorists in Pakistan |
Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Anaru MRTA | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Peru, was formed in to overthrow the Peruvian government and replace it with a Marxist regime, has connections with the ELN in Bolivia |
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | an academy that gives annual awards for achievements in motion picture production and performance |