movement

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

Borrowed from Old French movement (modern French mouvement), from movoir + -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (“move”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuːv.mənt/

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• Hyphenation: move‧ment

movement (countable and uncountable, plural movements)

1. Physical motion between points in space.

   Synonym: motion

   Antonym: stasis

   I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.

2. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
3. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
4. 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. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
6. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.

   Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.

7. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.

   The movement on his cutter was devastating.

8. 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,

9. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

• speed
• symphony
• vector
• velocity

• mouvement

From Old French movement.

movement m (plural movemens)

1. movement

• French: mouvement

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

movement m (plural movements)

1. movement (physical motion)
2. movement (trend in various fields)

• mòure / mover

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

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

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

1. movement

• English: movement
• Middle French: movement, mouvement
  • French: mouvement