motion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of changing location from one place to another

   police controlled the motion of the crowd

2. 2
   noun

   a change of position that does not entail a change of location

   The reflex motion of the eyebrows revealed their surprise.

3. 3
   noun

   a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote

   The representative made a motion to adjourn.

4. 4
   noun

   an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object

   the cinema relies on apparent motion

5. 5
   noun

   a state of change

   they were in a state of steady motion

6. 6
   noun

   A change whereby something goes from one place to another; a state of progression from one place to another; a change of position with respect to time.

   This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion.

7. 7
   noun

   A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.

   The motion to amend is now open for discussion.

8. 8
   noun

   An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.

   when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had bin else a meer artificiall Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English mocioun, mocion, from Anglo-Norman motion, Middle French motion, and their etymon Latin mōtiō (“movement, motion”), related to movēre, from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move”).