motion

1. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.Examples: "Several parties of hop-pickers joined the train at the intermediate stations, and the guard performed the acrobatic feat of walking along the footboards of the coaches to examine tickets, while the train was in motion."Synonyms: movementAntonyms: restuncountable

2. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.Examples: "This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion."countable

3. (physics) A change from one place to another.Examples: "Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion."Synonyms: move, movementAntonyms: restcountableuncountable

4. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.Examples: "The motion to amend is now open for discussion."; "Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion."countable

5. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.Examples: "when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had bin else a meer artificiall Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions."countableobsoleteuncountable

6. (philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.Examples: "I say, it is no uneven jot, to pass from the more faint and obscure examples of Spermatical life to the more considerable effects of general Motion in Minerals, Metalls, and sundry Meteors, whose easie and rude shapes may have no need of any Principle of Life, or Spermatical form distinct from the Rest or Motion of the particles of the Matter."countableuncountable