1 a group of people with a particular set of aims or ideas : --
[ + to infinitive ] Mulligan became involved in a movement to develop a different style of jazz.
He was a prominent member of the artistic movement known as the Ashcan School.
The suffragette movement campaigned for votes for women.
the antiwar movement
the women's movement
2 a situation in which people change their opinion or the way that they live or work: --
3 an occasion when something develops, changes, or happens in a particular way or direction: --
4 one of the main parts of a piece of classical music: --
Beethoven's fifth symphony has four movements.
5 the part of a clock or watch that turns the hands (= thin sticks) that point to the time --
We thus metaphorically refer to this kind of movement as 'agnostic' movement.
In their study, participants were required to make fast movements to targets that either remained stationary or jumped to a new location.
Information pick-up from the global array is not sufficient without adequate exploratory movements and learning to support perceptually guided activity.
Previous events in a sequence influence outcomes and trajectories, but not necessarily by inducing further movement in the same direction.
Every change in the number of droplets affects the movement of the remaining droplets immediately; the trajectories are non-smooth.
This is a new synthesis technique that can generate sounds from slow movements of mechanical systems.
We have applied the same idea to teaching music by arguing for body movement as a physical metaphor between musical activities and conceptual thinking.
The mind is taught not to direct the body, but to be in a state of harmonious awareness parallel with the body's natural movements.
