# movement
## English
### Alternative forms

* mov., movt, mvmt, mvt (abbreviation and contractions used in music)

### Etymology

From Middle English mevement, from Old French movement (modern French mouvement), from movoir + -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (“move”). Doublet of moment and momentum. In this sense, displaced native Old English styring, which led to Modern English stirring.
Morphologically move +‎ -ment.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmuːv.mənt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: move‧ment

### Noun

movement (countable and uncountable, plural movements)
* Physical motion between points in space.
    Synonym: motion
    Antonym: stasis
    I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.
* (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
* The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
* A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
    social movement
    The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.
** 2021, Richard C. Bush, Difficult Choices: Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life‎, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 274:During the latter part of Taiwan's authoritarian period, social protest movements arose that complemented the periodic efforts of the political opposition- the dangwai-to open the political system. One of the most prominent movements occurred in the town of Lukang in Changhua County in 1986.
* (music) A large division of a larger composition.
    Beethoven's movements
* (music) Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.
* (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
    Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.
* (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
    The movement on his cutter was devastating.
* (bridge) A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.
* Ellipsis of bowel movement (“an act of emptying the bowels”).
** 1923, Samuel Goodwin Gant, Diseases of the Rectum, Anus, and Colon, Including the Ileocolic Angle, page 47:when after a movement feces are streaked with blood and the patient suffers from sphincter algia, a fissure should be suspected,
* (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

#### Derived terms

* aftermovement
* aircraft movement
* A-movement
* antimovement
* art movement
* beta movement
* bowel movement
* Brownian movement
* camera movement
* choreiform movement
* civil rights movement
* comovement
* countermovement
* criminal religious movement
* cultural movement
* ecomovement
* ecumenical movement
* eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
* freedom of movement
* free school movement
* head movement
* holiness movement
* holomovement
* Howell movement
* human movement
* human potential movement
* involuntary movement
* Jesus movement
* literary movement
* march-movement
* micromovement
* midmovement
* Mitchell movement
* movement control order
* movement disorder
* multimovement
* new religious movement
* nonmovement
* of its proper movement
* Oxford movement
* perimovement
* photomovement
* pincer movement
* postmovement
* premovement
* Protestant Movement
* rapid eye movement
* social movement
* submovement
* temperance movement
* voluntary movement
* wh-movement
* youth movement

#### Translations
### See also

* speed
* symphony
* vector
* velocity
* The Movement (literature)

## Franc-Comtois
### Etymology

Derived from Old French movoir

### Noun

movement m (plural movements)
* movement

### References

* Oberli, Marie-Louis (2006) Patois - Français : Le Djâsaie De Tchie Nos, Glossaire Patois des Franches-Montagnes‎ (in French)

## Middle French
### Alternative forms

* mouvement

### Etymology

From Old French movement.

### Noun

movement m (plural movemens)
* movement

#### Descendants

* French: mouvement

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan; equivalent to mover +‎ -ment. Cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

movement m (plural movements)
* movement (physical motion)
* movement (trend in various fields)

#### Related terms

* mòure / mover

### Further reading

* Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 664.

## Old French
### Etymology

movoir +‎ -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin mōvimentum (itself probably partly based on the Old French or other early Romance cognates), from Latin moveō.

### Noun

movement oblique singular, m (oblique plural movemenz or movementz, nominative singular movemenz or movementz, nominative plural movement)
* movement

#### Descendants

* English: movement
* Middle French: movement, mouvement
** French: mouvement