Movement
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The term Movement has a variety of different meanings related to motion:
- Physical movement between points in space ("A to B"). The amount of movement is called distance, with a direction that becomes displacement. The rate of movement is the speed, that with direction, becomes velocity. Active movement is called locomotion and transport.
- In biology movement refers to both intracellular movement and the movement of the organism or its parts and organs (See animal movement {floating, swimming, walking, flying,...} and plant movement {tropisms are movements in response to stimuli coming from one direction; geotropism, for example, is the response to gravity, while nastic movements are movements independent of the direction of stimuli; growth, developing buds, which swell, open up, and eventually fall off, are examples of nastic movements. Also, insectivorous plants move in response to the touch and chemical stimuli of captured insects.} ).
- In health care and medicine a bowel movement refers to the elimination of solid waste from the body.
- In a movie camera or projector, the term refers to the intermittent mechanism that transports the film.
- In aviation, the amount of traffic that an airport handles is described in movements per year, where one "movement" consists of a aircraft taking off or landing.
- In music, a movement is a large division of a larger composition. Symphonies are typically divided into four movements, for example, and concertos into three. Each movement has a distinct tempo and structure. Movement is also the title of New Order's 1981 debut album.
- In computer games, a movement is a special way the player can lead an alter ego through the virtual reality.
- In horology: for a clockwork, a clock, or a watch a movement is the device that is cutting time in equal portions
- In literature movement can also refer to the metrical or rhythmical properties of poetry.
- In linguistics and transformational grammar, syntactic movement refers to a process in which the deep structure of a linguistic expression is transformed to surface structure. One example of such movement is wh-movement.
- In politics, movement may refer to a political movement , e.g. the National Resistance Movement in Uganda, now simply refered to as "the Movement".
- Collected by G. I. Gurdjieff, Movements are sacred dances from Central Asian and African culture.
- Awareness Through Movement lessons are used by Feldenkrais method practitioners and students to discover new ways of using themselves with more ease, grace, and power.
- In various fields (history, sociology, culture studies) movement is the term commonly used to refer to a trend:
