1. The act of changing location from one place to another
   "the movement of people from the farms to the cities";
   - motion, move
    
2. A change of position that does not entail a change of location
   "movement is a sign of life";
   - motion, move, motility
    
3. A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
   "The movement of tectonic plates causes earthquakes";
   - motion
    
4. The act of changing the location of something
   "the movement of cargo onto the vessel"
    
5. A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
   "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he was a charter member of the social movement";
   - social movement, front
    
6. A major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
   "the second movement is slow and melodic"
    
7. A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
   "the movement to end slavery";
   - campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort
    
8. A general tendency to change (as of opinion)
   "a broad movement of the electorate to the right";
   - drift, trend
    
9. The driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
   "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"
    
10. A euphemism for defecation
    "he had a bowel movement";
    - bowel movement, bm

Derived forms: movements

Type of: action, action mechanism, change, composition, defaecation [Brit, rare], defecation, disposition, happening, inclination, laxation, musical composition, natural event, occurrence, occurrent, opus, piece, piece of music, social group, tendency, venture

Part of: clock, sonata, ticker [informal], watch

Encyclopedia: Movement, migration, or scattering