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The use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals

• gesture  8

• visual communication

• sign  5
• gesticulation  16
• beck  12
• facial expression
• • facial gesture
  • flourish  14
  • high-five
  • previous question
  • shrug  9
  • wafture  13
  • wave  10
  • waving  13
  • v sign
  • nod  4
  • bow  8
  • bowing  12
  • obeisance  13
  • sign of the cross
  • curtsey  12
  • curtsy  11
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A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

• movement  15

• happening  17
• natural event
• occurrence  16
• occurrent  13

• crustal movement
• tectonic movement
• approach  17
• approaching  21
• • passage  10
  • passing  10
  • deflection  16
  • deflexion  20
  • bend  7
  • bending  11
  • change of location
  • travel  9
  • undulation  11
  • wave  10
  • jitter  13
  • periodic motion
  • periodic movement
  • heave  11
  • backlash  19
  • rebound  10
  • recoil  8
  • repercussion  16
  • kick  14
  • recoil  8
  • seek  8
  • squeeze  25
  • wring  9
  • cam stroke
  • throw  11
  • turn  4
  • turning  8
  • twist  8
  • wrench  14
  • undulation  11
  • moving ridge
  • wave  10
  • wobble  13
  • commotion  15
  • whirl  11
  • brownian motion
  • brownian movement
  • pedesis  10
  • decelerated motion
  • motion with variable acceleration
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A change of position that does not entail a change of location

Example: "The reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"

• motility  13
• move  9
• movement  15

• change  12

• abduction  14
• adduction  13
• agitation  10
• body english
• • circumduction  22
  • disturbance  16
  • fetal movement
  • foetal movement
  • dart  5
  • flit  7
  • gesture  8
  • headshake  20
  • headshaking
  • inclination  13
  • inclining  12
  • eversion  11
  • everting  12
  • inversion  12
  • inversion  12
  • upending  12
  • jerking  19
  • jolt  11
  • saccade  12
  • kick  14
  • kicking  18
  • kneel  9
  • kneeling  13
  • lurch  10
  • pitch  12
  • pitching  16
  • eye movement
  • opening  10
  • prostration  13
  • reach  10
  • reaching  14
  • stretch  12
  • reciprocation  19
  • reclining  12
  • retraction  12
  • retroflection  18
  • retroflexion  22
  • rotary motion
  • rotation  8
  • closing  10
  • shutting  12
  • sitting  8
  • posing  9
  • sitting  8
  • snap  6
  • squat  14
  • squatting  19
  • sweep  10
  • toss  4
  • quiver  18
  • quivering  22
  • vibration  14
  • wave  10
  • flicker  16
  • flutter  10
  • waver  11
  • standing  10
  • span  6
  • straddle  10
  • squirm  17
  • wiggle  11
  • wriggle  12
  • eurhythmics  24
  • eurhythmy  23
  • eurythmics  20
  • eurythmy  19
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A state of change

Example: "They were in a state of steady motion"

• state  5

• palpitation  15
• quiver  18
• quivering  22
• shakiness  16
• • shaking  15
  • trembling  14
  • vibration  14
  • perpetual motion
  • precession  14
  • flow  10
  • stream  8
  • relative motion
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• motionlessness  16

A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote

Example: "He made a motion to adjourn"

• question  17

The act of changing location from one place to another

Example: "Police controlled the motion of the crowd"

• move  9
• movement  15

• change  12

• approach  17
• approaching  21
• coming  11
• advance  13
• • advancement  19
  • forward motion
  • onward motion
  • procession  14
  • progress  11
  • progression  14
  • locomotion  14
  • travel  9
  • lunge  6
  • lurch  10
  • travel  9
  • traveling  13
  • travelling  14
  • chase  10
  • following  16
  • pursual  9
  • pursuit  9
  • ascending  13
  • ascension  11
  • ascent  8
  • rise  4
  • descent  10
  • swing  9
  • swinging  13
  • vacillation  16
  • return  6
  • coast  7
  • glide  7
  • slide  6
  • slippage  13
  • flow  10
  • stream  8
  • crawl  10
  • hurrying  15
  • speed  8
  • speeding  12
  • displacement  19
  • translation  11
  • shift  11
  • shifting  15
  • haste  8
  • hurry  11
  • rush  7
  • rushing  11
  • maneuver  13
  • manoeuvre  14
  • play  9
  • migration  12
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An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object

Example: "The cinema relies on apparent motion"

• apparent motion
• apparent movement
• movement  15