Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
A change from one place to another.
A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
A state of progression from one place to another.
from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
A change of position with respect to time.
A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
To make a proposal; to offer plans.
To gesture indicating a desired movement.
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
The method or practice by which actions are done.
A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands);
A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
A planned undertaking.
A business or organization.
a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.
The method by which a device performs its function.
A surgical procedure.