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movement   (TTS Sound)

The noun movement has 11 senses

• 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")


• 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, motion -- (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)


• movement, social movement, front -- (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")


• movement -- (a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic")


• 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")


• apparent motion, motion, apparent movement, movement -- (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")


• bowel movement, movement, bm -- (a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement")


• 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")


• movement -- (the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement")


• movement -- (the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel")