movement meaning and definition

MOVEMENT noun

Definition of movement (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"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility"
   • synonyms: motility, motion, move
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"
   • synonyms: motion, move
3. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
   • synonyms: 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"
   • synonyms: front, social 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"; "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"
   • synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, 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"
   • synonyms: apparent motion, apparent movement, motion
8. a euphemism for defecation
   • "he had a bowel movement"
   • synonyms: bm, bowel movement
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"
   • synonyms: drift, trend
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"