movement
EN
[ˈmuːv.mənt] 
US WMovement
- Movement may refer to:
- Movement (clockwork), the internal mechanism of a timepiece
- Movement (sign language), the direction and nature of the movement of the hands when signing
- Syntactic movement, a phenomenon in some theories of grammar
- NounPLmovementsSUF-ement
- Physical motion between points in space.
- 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.
- The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.
- (music) A large division of a larger composition.
- (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.
- An act of emptying the bowels.
- when after a movement feces are streaked with blood and the patient suffers from sphincter algia, a fissure should be suspected,
- OBS Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
- Physical motion between points in space.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Nevertheless, one foot is generally used in preference to the other in such movements as digging (hence sometimes called the spade foot), in hopping, in making a leap, &c.
- There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,
- Experiments in the macaque show that eye movement speed can be >20% higher when the target is rewarded compared with nonrewarded (Bendiksby and Platt 2006).
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The dancer titillated her audience with gyrations and suggestive movements.
- Since its introduction in 2003, pecha-kucha has spread like a benevolent virus and metamorphosed into an international movement.
- Largely self-taught, he claimed to have been influenced by Schoenberg, Messiaen, and the musique concrete movement.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of movement in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
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Grammatically, this word "movement" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.