Definition of Movements

1. Noun. (plural of movement) ¹

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Definition of Movements

1. movement [n] - See also: movement

Lexicographical Neighbors of Movements

move up
moveable
moveable feast
moveables
moveably
moved
moved(p)
moved the yardsticks
moveless
movelessly
movelessness
movelessnesses
movely
movement
movement-related pain
movements (current term)
movent
mover
mover and shaker
movers
moves
moves the yardsticks
movest
moveth
movie
movie actor
movie camera
movie film
movie house
movie industry

Literary usage of Movements

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Skill in performing finer movements consists largely in the voluntary ... Think, for example, of the degree of isolation of finger-movements in the ..."

2. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"The complex of movements has a unity which results from the union of all of the ... General movements as conditions of fusion of retinal sensations. ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In most cases of protoplasmic movements light appears to exert uo influence; ... Again, organs which exhibit spontaneous movements of variation, ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"Breathing movements. Catching breath, I. Breathing slow and half suspended, i. ... movements involving the trunk. Leaning forward, I. Inhibition of all ..."

5. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1902)
"The mechanism of production of these voluntary movements is what befalls us to study now. ... The movements to the study of which we now address ourselves, ..."

6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"Although a physicist may tell us that on a certain day a change in level is in operation, our knowledge of this, like that of many other earth-movements, ..."

7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"cause of the movements of bodies, he expressed the property common to all bodies, ... And if the subject of history is to be the study of the movements of ..."

8. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Skill in performing finer movements consists largely in the voluntary ... Think, for example, of the degree of isolation of finger-movements in the ..."

9. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"The complex of movements has a unity which results from the union of all of the ... General movements as conditions of fusion of retinal sensations. ..."

10. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In most cases of protoplasmic movements light appears to exert uo influence; ... Again, organs which exhibit spontaneous movements of variation, ..."

11. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"Breathing movements. Catching breath, I. Breathing slow and half suspended, i. ... movements involving the trunk. Leaning forward, I. Inhibition of all ..."

12. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1902)
"The mechanism of production of these voluntary movements is what befalls us to study now. ... The movements to the study of which we now address ourselves, ..."

13. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"Although a physicist may tell us that on a certain day a change in level is in operation, our knowledge of this, like that of many other earth-movements, ..."

14. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"cause of the movements of bodies, he expressed the property common to all bodies, ... And if the subject of history is to be the study of the movements of ..."

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