| movement | |
| 1. n. Physical motion between points in space. | |
| I saw a movement in that grass on the hill. | |
| 2. n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch. | |
| 3. n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc. | |
| 4. n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals | |
| The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947. | |
| 5. n. (music) A large division of a larger composition. | |
| 6. n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing. | |
| Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year. | |
| 7. n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight. | |
| The movement on his cutter was devastating. | |
| 8. n. An act of emptying the bowels. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion. | |
