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Meaning of movement

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  movement
      n 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"; "an impatient move
           of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility" [syn: {motion},
           {movement}, {move}, {motility}]
      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"; "his move put him
         directly in my path" [syn: {motion}, {movement}, {move}]
      3: a natural event that involves a change in the position or
         location of something [syn: {movement}, {motion}]
      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";
         "he led the national liberation front" [syn: {movement},
         {social movement}, {front}]
      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"; "the team was ready for
         a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery";
         "contributed to the war effort" [syn: {campaign}, {cause},
         {crusade}, {drive}, {movement}, {effort}]
      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" [syn: {apparent motion},
         {motion}, {apparent movement}, {movement}]
      8: a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement" [syn:
         {bowel movement}, {movement}, {bm}]
      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" [syn: {drift}, {trend},
         {movement}]
      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"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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